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Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:07:52 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
The name should be the characters after the !COLOR keyword and before the next
keyword.  The only contraint I can think of is that is not be one of the other
keywords.

I won't make any guarantees, but there's a reasonably high probability that I
won't even try to support the above, even if it's what the spec says in the end.
It's too much of a pain.  Additionally, it disallows further expansion of the
colour statement with new keywords.

However, if we require the CODE keyword to come next, it would solve both
problems.

How about NAME?

Actually, while it doesn't actually say one way or another, I would vote to have
the required parameters (CODE, VALUE, and EDGE) always be in the same order.
Any optional parameters should not be order-dependent, but I think the required
ones should be.

I don't see a problem with this.  Steve or Jacob?

-Orion



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
 
(...) Disregard the NAME suggestion. I'm brain dead today. -Orion (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
 
(...) I don't want to specify that some parameters are order-specific, and others aren't. I'd rather they are all one way or the other. Goes back to easier 'correct' parsing. However, I'm sure the entries in ldconfig.ldr will always have their tags (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
 
(...) I won't make any guarantees, but there's a reasonably high probability that I won't even try to support the above, even if it's what the spec says in the end. It's too much of a pain. Additionally, it disallows further expansion of the colour (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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