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On 14-04-11 11:54 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> I would, however, claim that this actually is a "bug" (we could
>> call it a "misfeature") in the functionality!
> It's intentional and old, intended to support certain ways of doing
> slotted components.  Consider U23a U23b and U23c being three gates in
> one chip.

Ok.

But notice that my point was that the "misfeature" is mainly
the fact that the software fails "silently".

That is:  a symbol contains lowercase, which is not allowed.
The sensible thing to do is report *that* error --- report the
fact that a symbol contains lowercase letters which are not
allowed.

Instead, the software simply says that "Could not find pin
this, there's a problem with net that, etc.", bypassing the
*real* problem.

Anyway --- just a suggestion!

Thanks,
Carlos
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