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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Reduce pinnumber attribute
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On Oct 21, 2015, at 4:13 AM, Nicklas Karlsson =
(nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] =
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> I assume pinnumber attribute is used to uniquely identify a pin.
>=20
> For almost all if not all cases I guess the pinlabel could be used as =
symbol pin number. If netlister use pinlabel attribute if no pinnumber =
attribute is available number of attributes could be reduced.
>=20
> Are there any disadvantages?

Gnetlist doesn=92t work that way. The Scheme API uses pinnumber to =
identify the pin. Without pinnumber, you can=92t even look up what =
pinlabel is. However, you can use any string as the =93pinnumber=94.

>=20
>=20
>=20
> Nicklas Karlsson
>=20

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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