After today's lengthy discussions about filter syntax, let's clean up

After today's lengthy discussions about filter syntax, let's clean up
whitespace/semicolon rules for whole config file:

   o  All non-zero amounts of whitespace are equivalent to single space
      (aka `all the whitespace has been born equal' ;-)).
   o  Comments count as whitespace.
   o  Whitespace has no syntactic signifance (it can only separate lexical
      elements).
   o  Consequence: line ends are no longer treated as `;'s.
   o  Every declaration must be terminated by an explicit `;' unless
      or by a group enclosed in `{' and `}'.