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Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:00:39 GMT
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote in message ...
> Hmm. I don't like it, but we have already abbreviated
> (counter)clockwise, so it does make sense to abbreviate
> double-sided too. :-(
I was just trying to be consistent...:)
I'd be just as happy if they were all spelled-out.
But I'd like to avoid supporting both abbreviations and the complete
spelling. Every additional test that has to be performed in the tight loop
of a dat file parser will slow down the loading of files.
-Gary
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 | | Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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| (...) Recognizing multiple forms of the command shouldn't add much to rendering. Each file can be parsed once, and then the post-parsing results cached, for later re-reference. The FACE meta-command would be stored as an opcode and a single (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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| Gary Williams: (...) Very sensible (now that Steve has convinced me). (...) Hmm. I don't like it, but we have already abbreviated (counter)clockwise, so it does make sense to abbreviate double-sided too. :-( Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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