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authorpommicket <pommicket@gmail.com>2025-09-23 01:54:50 -0400
committerpommicket <pommicket@gmail.com>2025-09-23 01:54:50 -0400
commit6ae91130c7c2ff1c11ecfe5798d8037954a4d570 (patch)
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parent83ee81133b2c8a853330c8b683c391068ce36a97 (diff)
Stricter requirements about locations of sections
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Useful for reporting invalid values.
If a key <i>k</i> isn’t given a value in the configuration, but a key of the form
<i>k</i><code>.</code><i>j</i> is, then the
- location of the definition of an arbitrary such key
- should be considered the location of <i>k</i>.
+ location of the definition of the earliest such key
+ should be considered the location of <i>k</i>. Here “earliest” means having
+ the least line number; when there are keys from multiple files to consider
+ (as may be the case in merged configurations),
+ which one is earliest is determined arbitrarily.
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<code>get(conf: Configuration, key: String) -&gt; Optional&lt;String&gt;</code><br>