On Tuesday 13 December 2016 16:24:57 John Kasunich wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 December 2016 09:27:22 John Kasunich wrote:
> >
> > That doesn't sound nearly so usefull John, except as a way to fix a
> > screwup in an existing config. By what you say, I can't even do a
> >  addf mux2 1
> > as the first addf it encounters.
> >
> > I'd imagine there was a theory back when though.
>
> The reason the "position" option was added to addf was for interactive
> work, where you are literally building a HAL on the fly from the
> command line.  If you have a hal file, you should just use your text
> editor to put the addf lines in the proper order.  If you are doing it
> on the fly from the command line and realize that some function needs
> to be early in the thread, the position is the only way to do that
> short of starting over.

I can't recall ever building a hal file on the fly. I think I lack the 
organizational mindset, and the short term memory to attempt that now.

Thanks John.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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