Right - programs should accept the widest choice but generate standard ABC.
BUT
Think about Barfly. It doesn't generate at all.
If it accepts mangled syntax then it encourages and legitimises such
mangling
If it refuses to, then it is "broken" - so it needs careful thought.
And any other "input only" ABC program (e.g. one that just converts to
tadpoles, or one that just plays) it has the same characteristic.
I don't know what the answer is.
Laurie
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Modes, democracy and benevolent(?) dictatorship
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Bob Archer wrote:
> To finish off with, I am going to restate my basic premise:
>
> The more variants of abc programs accept, the less useful abc is as an
> exchange mechanism.
Reductio ad absurdum: if abc programs accept no variants of abc they'll be
universal exchange mechanisms.
I don't have to re-edit (primarily) abc2win-generated abc because abc2ps
_accepts_ the abc2win variant. I have to re-edit them because it
_doesn't_.
I think you must mean 'generate' ?
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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