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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:25:23 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney writes:
I don't think the average, non-programmer users will 1) hand edit files too
often or 2) have a hard time learning //.

They might be comfortable with any number of conventions, but I guarantee
they will forget sometimes if you try to require them to change the way they
enter comments.

--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com)



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  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) So we (well, the SB eventually) decide on one way, stick to it, and implement it in programs. We can put a request in to Michael Lachmann to change the insertion of "WRITE" (which is an improper use of a meta-command) with "//" so future (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) Travis, By definition, all the programs have to be able to handle the original unadorned comments of type 0 records. This is a requirement for all 0.27 compliant programs. This means that anything we don't recognize as a meta-command is a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) Has a hyphen been used anywhere for a similar purpose? I'm not aware of it. I'm one of the least-techy of the bunch, though I can hack some code, and I think it's better to stick to what most know, as long as it's not cumbersome like {}. I (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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