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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:31:03 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] first attempt at bus support in gnetlist for pcb
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> Presumably this operates with "normal" nets and pins, not gschem buses -
> which still (as far as I recall) don't netlist.

Correct.

> One potential disadvantage of using this, (user choice of course), is that
> until more work on applying new semantic rules is done in geda, schematics
> using this new attribute semantics will be less easily reused for other
> work like simulation.

And verilog uses a different bus syntax, too.  It's up to the gnetlist
folks to decide if they want to "centralize" this, I'd much rather
have my backend call a function that says "please expand busses for
me" and be done with it.

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