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On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> For those who have not seen, I implemented an example program in C
> using Lua to safely read data defined in Lua files.

And that is of little use. The schematic and configuration files need to be trivially readable/writable by *any* language that the tool maker chooses (AWK, perl, Python, ObjectiveC, …). The geda-gaf schematic format is already excellent from that perspective. Guile configuration files are less satisfactory. Formats tied to a specific language implementation are not a good idea.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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