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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Using Lua to safely read configuration and layout files (program attached)
From: John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 07:43:47 -0700
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On Feb 9, 2015, at 2:20 AM, Chris Smith <space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com> wrote:

> 
>> On 8 Feb 2015, at 19:36, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> Let’s see: you want to change our generalized format into a language-specific format to suit your language. You suggest that the rest of us use a tool to convert your format back.
> 
> No.  I would like to make a few minor syntactic changes to the generalised format, which have little impediment to your current way of working but which have large and obvious benefits to people who want to work in a different way.

No. There is a modest benefit to *you* (or is Lua so weak that it can’t parse the current format?). It’s a serious impediment to anybody who isn’t using Lua.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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