On Sep 5, 2010, at 1:56 PM, 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.
So gschem and gnetlist must obviously be constantly failing, suffer from horrible inflexibility, and users must live in a fog of file format driven error. Except they don't. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
