X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: [geda-user] rs-274x nits From: Dave Curtis In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:36:56 -0700 Message-Id: References: <53EA540E DOT 9000609 AT sonic DOT net> <1407876579 DOT 79247 DOT YahooMailNeo AT web120502 DOT mail DOT ne1 DOT yahoo DOT com> <53EA8692 DOT 4090902 AT sonic DOT net> <1407882017 DOT 64999 DOT YahooMailNeo AT web120501 DOT mail DOT ne1 DOT yahoo DOT com> <57B5BB87-4F51-4279-B689-8229896512DD AT noqsi DOT com> <53EADD10 DOT 40806 AT sonic DOT net> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVZDpi3qnjZUHvHdZIbB2SSwnLC5+Znd/MO9SX/bGv5C9F/LLep8kmO6qzfRVlFA9x2G0UgkDSSq9VMO0qM6vdfzkyibZKYTag4= X-Sonic-ID: C;tMJTbBAj5BGP6s2354E5FQ== M;tuqhbBAj5BGP6s2354E5FQ== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id s7DHb4MG014687 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Aug 13, 2014, at 6:17 AM, John Doty wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Dave Curtis wrote: > >> On 08/12/2014 04:19 PM, John Doty wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Dave Curtis wrote: >>> >>>> Because if "CR and LF have no effect", then why the admonition against CR/LF against places after a comma? >>> >>> Often, specs for readers say “be liberal in what you accept” while specs for writers say “be conservative in what you emit”. That seems to be the case here. Don’t make a big deal of it. >>> >> >> Yes, I totally understand that philosophy. If I was writing a reader, I would have no problem being liberal. If I was writing a writer, I would have no problem being conservative. But... I am writing a validation tool, which leaves zero margin for lack of precision. > > Well, commonly you have “errors” and “warnings”. Issue an error for anything that a liberal reader cannot interpret, and a warning for anything that a conservative writer should not emit. Yes, obviously. So you understand why I am asking. > >> >> I first did logic design on mainframe CPU's in 1981. I spent a large part of my life combing architecture documents for nits, making the lives of the spec authors quite miserable until they told me precisely what they meant. Logic design mistakes in CPUs can be expensive. At one point in my life I signed off on the Pentium processor errata sheet every month before it went out..... >> >>> John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. >>> http://www.noqsi.com/ >>> jpd AT noqsi DOT com >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > jpd AT noqsi DOT com > > >