[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] expr: Add address set support.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Apr 12 16:35:07 UTC 2016


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:30:12PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > Second, one of my design goals for the expression language was to avoid
> > reserved words, so that the language itself, at least, would not
> > restrict the choice of field names.  Also, "address_set" is a pretty
> > long name, making it somewhat undesirable; I wouldn't want to type it
> > very often.  Can you think of a different syntax that would avoid
> > reserved words?  For example, one of the following as a substitute for
> > address_set(name) might be reasonable:
> >
> >         $name
> >         @name
> >         [name]
> >         <name>
> >         name()
> 
> 
> Sure, I can do that.  I don't have a strong preference.  My initial
> reaction is to go with $name, though.

That seems good to me.  Thanks!



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