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Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:57:51 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.
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> 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.
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> However, if we require the CODE keyword to come next, it would solve both
> problems.
I don't think so. What if CODE is part of the color name? I can't
think of a quick example for that, but other key words are easy.
AlphaTeamRed, BlueChrome...
I'll support color names with no space characters, and I'll consider
supporting color names with spaces, if the name is enclosed in quotes.
> 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 like this idea.
Don
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| (...) I would prefer that spaces not be allowed in the color name as well. However, the spec does say that all the keywords are case sensitive (must be all caps), and I believe the original suggestion was that keywords by themselves with spaces (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) 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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