Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] config.txt: describe handling of whitespace further

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

    Whitespace surrounding `name`, `=` and `value` is ignored. If
    `value` is surrounding by double quotation marks (`"`), all
    characters within the quoted string are retained verbatim,
    including whitespace. Comments starting with either `#` or `;` and
    extending to the end of line are discarded. A line that defines a
    value can be continued to the next line by ending it with a `\`;
    the backslash and the end-of-line are stripped.

Nice, but I am not sure how this captures how whitespaces between
value and comment are handled, e.g., in this line

	|  name = value # comment$

humans know the space before '#' is removed because it is
"whitespace surrounding value".  But there is a bit of chicken and
egg problem; before you realize '# comment' is a comment and strip
it from the line, you do not know where value ends, so your reading
of the above need to backtrack.