<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:04 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <<a href="mailto:toke@toke.dk">toke@toke.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users <<a href="mailto:bird-users@network.cz" target="_blank">bird-users@network.cz</a>> writes:<br>
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> Hello, Maria!<br>
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> You suggestion for blob syntax seems good to me. I think I can try to<br>
> prepare patches for that. Only one concern is that it could break some<br>
> current configuration files, if they have functions with such names. Maybe<br>
> it is better to use some other "brackets" to make it less possible to hit<br>
> something? hex<deadbeef> or hex[deadbeef] maybe? Or even something exotic<br>
> like hex|deadbeef| ?<br>
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How about just using the standard 0x prefix?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is already taken for integers. :)<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I.e.:<br>
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0xfc00deadbeefcafe -> 8-byte byte string<br>
fc00:dead:beef:cafe -> IPv6 address<br>
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-Toke<br>
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