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> >>> and fixing bugs
> >>> is generally cheaper the closer you detect them to where they occur.
> >> 
> >> You don’t even know where the netlist is coming from. It’s the downstream processing’s job to avoid breakage. If the downstream has problems that can’t be fixed, and the netlister is gnetlist, it may be useful to dodge them in the back end. Gnetlist has the machinery to support this.
> > 
> > What to you mean by dodge them in the back end?
> 
> There’s code in gnetlist that allows a back end to alias refdes and netname values that violate its rules.

This is certainly the right spot to attack the problem. Until this point it is all about what gschem can support and after this point it is all about what backend could support.

Purpose of manually adding a net name is to make readable by human: special characters, lower case and especially native characters make sense.


Nicklas Karlsson