On Saturday 06 September 2008, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Since this kind of complaints keeps occuring ever again, I guess it's best to simply report errors when reading config files (as suggested by Tim)
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Somewhat related - I'm wondering why comments are not allowed in channels.conf, remote.conf, setup.conf and timers.conf?
Or actually more generally why an option for disallowing comments in some *.conf files exists in the first place :)