Good ${greeting_time}, Carol!

29 Oct 2017 11:43:56, you wrote to me:

 CS>>> Hi all, there hasn't been much going on but the FTSC did release
 CS>>> an INA flag cleanup.  Mostly to get the position of the flag in a
 CS>>> consistant location. Makes it easier for programmers.
 AV>> Any flag may be in any position in the tail of a nodelist line.
 AV>> You may deny it, but that's the truth.
 CS> I'm not denying it, only noting that the reason was for a little
 CS> better consistency.

That doesn't affect consistency: the nodelist lines are parsed by standard
functions like strtok() or split(), which don't care of fields order. Then,
fields are checked for valid flags, which are then parsed to key:value list.

Have you ever wrote something using imperative algorithmic language? Or your
experience consist only of databases? :-)


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