Hi DJ and all, First let's get this specified more in detail before this gets out of hand.
What sort of content should the parser be agnostic of ? Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:06 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Shouldn't the file format be forward compatible with a warning? if > > an unknown parameter is introduced in the file format, pump out a > > warning and continue? > > The problem is that pcb's file format is entirely defined by a yacc > grammar. I.e. the grammar says "expect FOO or BAR or GRILL here" and > if you give it any other token, you get a syntax error. A better file > format would be something where the syntax is independent of the > content, like what the menu resource uses, or (gak) XML. Then we > could parse the whole file into a data structure (all at once or > piecemeal), and interpret (or not) the data we get. > > Perhaps we could change the parser to be content-agnostic, though. > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
