Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

[Phil Taylor]

Laurie wrote:

>For consistency, terminate all the fields in the header with !  Line ends
>are then logically optional, but omitting them should be deprecated (on the
>grounds of readability for humans).
>

It would have been nice to have something like this from the start, but
introducing it now would pose all kinds of compatibility nproblems.

One thing I thought of is to introduce a checksum in the header somewhere.
If the checksum doesn't match the tune you know that it's been mangled
(or even edited by hand).

Phil Taylor
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