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> 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.

I can imagine that if we changed pinnumber to be symbolic, there would
be cases where pinnumbers would no longer be unique.  If we then
needed some unique ID for pins, pinseq might make more sense.