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On 02/07/2015 12:30 PM, Jason White wrote:
> You can use Lua for scripting and simultaneously you can make use of
> its parser for other purposes such as data and configuration files.
> 
> The one thing that I find exciting is that with the data of a board or
> schematic stored as Lua variables and arrays, it becomes really
> trivial to write scripts that can act on your designs and modify them
> without going through all of the hassle of parsing a custom format.
> 
> Thats where I want to go with this.

  You have done great work and presented your case well, and I have to
admit your suggestions are compelling.  I don't think anyone here would
argue with that.  I'm a bit more open to the idea than I was at the
outset.  I still maintain, however, that there would be an image
problem.  It is most decidedly a nontechnical issue, and in a perfect
world it should never even come up.

  I wonder if anything can be done about that.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA