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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Composing service definitions (and maybe fmt)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:14:02 +0100
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Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:

> (I've also thought that some sort of string reader similar to skribe's
> [foo ,(bar)] string-quasiquoting may make things easier.  Might even be
> complimentary...)

I like this idea.  It seems unrealistic to me to have configuration file
writers for each of the many ideosyncatic configuration file formats.  I
also don=E2=80=99t enjoy having to concatenate strings to generate config=
uration
files and I think that it would be useful if we had string-quasiquoting.

But I think we need some example cases first.  My experiences is
coloured by concatenating strings for udev rules.  That=E2=80=99s not nic=
e, but
I also would not want to have to learn a new Schemey way of expressing
these rules =E2=80=94 especially when I just want to copy them with minim=
al
changes from documentation and don=E2=80=99t want to have to understand t=
hem
first.

~~ Ricardo