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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 15 Mar 2003 03:07:03 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin Clague writes:
> > I could not agree more. I've been tossing around the concepts of an LDraw
> > file format standards body with Tim and others, and IMHO the weakest link in
> > the LDraw file format is that comments and meta-commands use the same record
> > type. It is a bummer.
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> Kevin & Travis -
> These are very good points. As a non-programmer, but someone who has a
> general knowledge of the LDraw file format, I think it is a good idea to
> separate comments from meta-commands.
Why not force comments to be a meta-command like MLcad does with WRITE? Then
the only problem you have is new files created with Ledit, and old files
which will need to be converted. And Ldraw would still handle them OK.
ROSCO
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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| (...) Why not keep previous meta-commands where they're at, but also introduce a new line-type exclusively for meta-commands? I'm not too keen on MLCad's WRITE, to me it makes little to no sense. Maybe if it was COMMENT or even ! (like an HTML (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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| (...) Rosco, Unfortunately, MLCAD's use of WRITE is a really bad example, because MLCAD is mis-using an already standard meta-command. Plus, 0 WRITE statements are not allowed in official parts, so any part authors who create their files in MLCAD (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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| (...) Kevin & Travis - These are very good points. As a non-programmer, but someone who has a general knowledge of the LDraw file format, I think it is a good idea to separate comments from meta-commands. Also, talk of a standards body is a good (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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