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Re: [netmod] tree diagrams - flags

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Tue, 21 March 2017 13:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] tree diagrams - flags
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worley@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) wrote:
> One thing that threw me the first time I saw it is marking lists with
> "*".  That doesn't match the generic use of "*", which is to mark the
> thing that is repeated.

Hmm, "*" was choosen b/c people are used to read it as
"zero or more".  So for example:

     +---c server* [name]
         +--c name          string
         ...

means zero or more "server" elements.  Each indexed by "name".

> (Compare using "?" to mark an optional thing,
> which does match the generic usage.)  But in the context of Yang, you
> don't want to flag the items in the list with "*", that would make the
> tree harder to read.

What is an "item in the list"?


/martin

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