12 Jun
2023
12 Jun
'23
1:13 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:04 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:
Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users <bird-users@network.cz> writes:
Hello, Maria!
You suggestion for blob syntax seems good to me. I think I can try to prepare patches for that. Only one concern is that it could break some current configuration files, if they have functions with such names. Maybe it is better to use some other "brackets" to make it less possible to hit something? hex<deadbeef> or hex[deadbeef] maybe? Or even something exotic like hex|deadbeef| ?
How about just using the standard 0x prefix?
It is already taken for integers. :)
I.e.:
0xfc00deadbeefcafe -> 8-byte byte string fc00:dead:beef:cafe -> IPv6 address
-Toke