On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 21:56 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Stefan Salewski wrote: > > > One disadvantage of that format may be: > > We have lines starting with a letter followed by up to 16 decimal > > numbers -- hand editing such lines may be difficult. Not a problem for > > me, I do not intend hand editing. > > More precisely: Positional parameters are bad. > Mapping position to meaning makes it hard to add additional parameters > anywhere but at the end. Structured data does not easily fit easily. It is > next to impossible to throw meaningful errors if values are in the wrong > order. Instead, the error likely goes unnoticed on read and can produce > havoc at unsuspected places further down the flow. > > This is not a matter of style, but a major flaw. > It is the very reason why a completely new format for pcb might be worth the > effort. >
Yes, I agree. But when each parameter in the file has a name, than file size may become really large, e.g. for files generated with the topological router, with lot of arcs. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
