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On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Christian Riggenbach <criggenbach AT magahugu DOT ch> wrote:

> On Sunday 08 February 2015 11.21:21 you wrote:
>> A step backward from the files unless you’re writing in Lua. Any application
>> can read a file, but FFI’s are messy.
> 
> Just pipe the output of a custom backend to another tool. With a simple, 
> consistent and *complete* representation of the data, this is the next step.

Let’s see: you want to change our generalized format into a language-specific format to suit your language. You suggest that the rest of us use a tool to convert your format back.

> 
>> Except that every application needs an internal representation that’s
>> different from Lua’s if it’s not in Lua.
> 
> That's just normal, as every application does something only it can. Why 
> should it exist otherwise?

Yes, but that makes your change of representation less than useless. Just read the existing files with Lua if you want, and stay out of the way of everybody else.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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