More sanity checks in v3

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

> On 28 Apr 2015, at 12:45, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 28, 2015, at 12:40 PM, Matthew Newton <mcn4 at leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I guess it's historical, but just wondering why unquoted strings
>> are permitted at all.
> 
>  Historical.
> 
>> Can they be removed in 3.1?
> 
>  Probably, yes.  Arran and I have had a number of discussions around this.
> 
>  Some unquoted strings should be allowed, where the context is clear.  e.g. the RHS of the following:
> 
> 	if (&NAS-Port-Id == 0)
> 
>  For the left side, using unquoted strings is almost always wrong.

You do type inference from the format of barewords, and leave strings as strings.

Integers are easy, but we might be able to do IPv4/IPv6 addresses/prefixes as well.

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS development team

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