Re: iSCSI: Text/Operational keys: booleans and ranges

[Luben Tuikov <luben@splentec.com>]

"Daniel F. Smith" wrote:
>
> An old trick is to use bit 0 of the first (UTF-8) character.
> This gets:	
>         1 for "1", "Yes", "yes", "oui", "si" (but not "ja", "da" or "hai")
>         0 for "0", "No", "non" (but not "ei")

But this makes things worse as one would rely on low level
representation to figure out the value, so we are better off
comparing case sensitive strings... in the low level protocol
implementation...

How about ranges using the dash?

True, one could _count_ the commas to fugure out if it is a
list (number of commas > 1) or a range (number of commas = 1), but you have to add code to _count_
the commas.

Using a dash for ranges, the list of numerical values is
handled by default by the already existing code in your
implementation to intesect two strings of comma separated
objects.

Anyone?

-- 
Luben