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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:50:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
> 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 //.
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> 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,
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 comment. I get the impression that you think this is
going to change.
For 0.27 compliant DAT/LDR files, adding a meta-command that means comment
will only be of aid to the human reading the file. This could be a huge
help reading someone elses files where you don't know all the meta-commands
used.
With file versioning, we can require a comment prefix, and the user will get
a warning about un-recognized meta-command when the forget to start their
comment with the comment meta-command.
Kevin
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> --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com)
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) 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) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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