From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 01:38:11 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Added comment about not supporting trailing semicolons
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/commitdiff_plain/a1349849b7d37f6ffd264005c1f945d64bb35858?ds=inline;hp=-c

Added comment about not supporting trailing semicolons
for aliases (in alias file).
---

a1349849b7d37f6ffd264005c1f945d64bb35858
diff --git a/uip/aliasbr.c b/uip/aliasbr.c
index a696e8a6..2e83d07c 100644
--- a/uip/aliasbr.c
+++ b/uip/aliasbr.c
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ akval (struct aka *ak, char *s)
     if (!s)
 	return s;			/* XXX */
 
+    /* It'd be tempting to check for a trailing semicolon and remove
+       it.  But that would break the EXMH alias parser on what would
+       then be valid expressions:
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-10/msg00039.html
+     */
+
     for (; ak; ak = ak->ak_next) {
 	if (aleq (s, ak->ak_name)) {
 	    return akresult (ak);