[webkit-dev] Simplifying syntax in test_expectations.txt (bug 86691)

Ojan Vafai ojan at chromium.org
Thu May 17 14:19:48 PDT 2012


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I supposed I misread Peter's earlier email as being opposed to this.
>> But, I for one am opposed to it. I find the jumble of modifiers in the
>> second set of lines here much harder to quickly parse than the groupings in
>> the first set of lines.
>>
>
> I don't think anyone else has opposed, and this has been complaints from
> many people who have complained about the current syntax (See Darin & Ben's
> responses earlier in the thread). Given that, I don't see how we can
> rationalize to keep the delimiters if our goal is to accommodate their
> needs.
>

I would like for us to move forward on the subset of things we can all
agree on so that we can focus the rest of the bikeshedding on a smaller
number of issues.
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