[40] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Quoting issues
bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 15 19:08:40 1990
1) I think backslashes are gross, and quite frankly I never quite
remember whether to use 1 or 2 or 4 or.. I would be very happy NOT to
see this problem happen again in Kerberos. That it already exists in
other systems is a good reason NOT to do it -- maybe if we avoid it,
other new systems will try to.
2) Your suggestion can be reduced to:
comp1/comp2/comp3 is a name in the local realm
/realm/comp1/comp2/comp3 is the same name in realm "realm"
In other words, a name with a leading / has a realm as the first
character, and a name without a leading / is in the local (or default,
whatever we decided to call it) realm.
I think this is clean, easy to understand, and easy to parse. I can't
think of any new problems it introduces.
