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On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:00:23 +0100
Christian Riggenbach <criggenbach AT magahugu DOT ch> wrote:

> To state the obvious: yeah, that would be a problem. Either code the
> unit- system in the core (hard to maintain), use something as trivial
> as "3*mm + $n 
> * 10*mil" and define mm end the other units as factors (hard to
> read). And unit-parsing on an higher level would negate the added
> benefit of a parser in the first way.

I wouldn't use ANY scripts in the PCB or sch file. That would make life
very hard. I'd use <whatever scripting language> to parse the data in a
file. This is the task to be done, just don't overcomplicate the solution. I
would be happy if it was Lua, but we could roll our own language and parser.

If there is something we can do, it doesn't mean we must do it.

Levente

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