Re: [Boost-users] Multiple instance of options

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Multiple instance of options
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-22 20:07:20

On 9/20/2013 9:48 PM, Quoth Ulf Samuelsson:
>> You can't duplicate the [sensor] section as you then have no way of
>> selecting which one you want.
>>
> If I look at an xorg.conf file I find:
[...]
> so it is not impossible.
> The "Identifier" allows you to differentiate between the two.

Sure, because that uses a custom parser and builds up data structures 
from the entire file in one pass, using such domain-specific knowledge 
to validate content and generate the links between entries.

You're welcome to do the same, but you're unlikely to find something off 
the shelf that does it that way.