[MPlayer-users] playlist file syntax

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:25:32AM +0000, James Gatt wrote:
> Quoting Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> 
> > no need for that many slashes - both '#' and '//' at the beginning of
> > the line are interpreted as comments by the current parser - so you
> > won't remove a feature.
> 
> I respect that # is possibly not used at the beginning of a filename as much as
> " is used within a filename, but it is still a perfectly valid character to
> have at the start of the filename in Linux. I just wanted to point out the
> double standard here - on the one hand people advocate that the program should
> not present a limit on filenames beyond the filesystem itself, and on the other
> hand it already does.

treating // at the beginning as a comment is no problem, since it
can't be required for a filename (// is the same as /). i agree that
having # be a comment is a double standard..

rich