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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:02:59 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt AT recycle DOT lbl DOT gov>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] A lesson from gnet-makefile
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DJ -

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:43:15PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> One of our old problems is "how to tell where a short really is".
> Perhaps that problem and "where is a star ground" are really the same
> problem?  We'd just need some way of saying "we expect these nets to
> be shorted".

No, that's the wrong answer, since it's exactly the same as having
one net.  We're looking for a way to say "we expect these nets to be
shorted _in_exactly_one_place".  And an acceptable solution involves
specifying where that place is.

  - Larry