Yeah, I haven't been keeping up with details, but it seems
@auto is gaining superpowers, wherein I can equip the
node with custom capabilities

blah blah

nevermind, Edward's message just arrived: empty ok

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:14 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:19:18 -0500
> "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 2. Nah: ic.createOutline won't call an importer for empty files.
>> That's just silly.  However, if you set trace = True in
>> ic.createOutline, the traces will tell you whether the read failed
>> (file did not exist) or returned an empty file.  This should eliminate
>> confusion, especially if your test file isn't empty!
>
> Well... generally I think you're right, but just for testing last night
> I made an importer / writer pair that just added "Opened 2014-2x-xx" and
> "Closed 2014-2x-xx" timestamps to the body...  hmm, that's not really
> illustrating my point.
>
> My point is that @auto-weather for example might read the weather
> observations recorded in the file and append the current observation to
> the file... so potentially it should be called even on an empty file.
>
> It seems to me that calling the importer and writer on empty files
> should have so little cost in cases where it's unnecessary that it's
> worth doing it just to enable all the "who would have thought of that"
> applications these super cheap load/save hooks provide.
>
> Cheers -Terry
>
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