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From: randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: WHITE PAPER: Enhancing the X resource file syntax
Message-ID: <9010011756.AA29461@erik.uucp>
Date: 1 Oct 90 17:55:13 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
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>How about a syntax like this instead:
>
>    MyApp*file_menu.btn1{
>        .foreground:    puce
>        .background:    purple
>        .borderColor:   greenish
>    }
>
>This would also allow nesting, as in:

Since we seem to be running a poll, this gets my vote.  It's easy to parse (at
least for the parser I use most often :-) and expresses the nested parent-child
nature of the hierarchy.  Indentation should be OPTIONAL, of course.

Randy Brown (uunet!erik!rbrown)