The wiki link to your file is: upload:extension.emc
not sure what the actual link is :D On 12/31/06, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kenneth wrote: > > > > Please see: > > > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?AlternativeNamedParameterSyntax > ... > > 2 -- All those '$' characters are confusing (see flowsnake.ngc in nc_files > > in HEAD for the example). > ... > > 2 -- I took part of this comment to mean that the '$' characters are ugly. > > Because they are so blocky, they catch the eye and make the code harder to > > read (for a human). I had originally wanted to use [] characters, but > > (someone else) noticed that #[sqrt[#1]] is legal syntax. That would have > > required more lookahead in the parser than is currently supported. The > > alternative uses <>, instead. > > i'm not terribly familiar with the g-code language, and so i'm > not sure about the parsing constraints. but having looked at the > flowsnake example: would it be possible to make the bracketing > characters optional, only requiring them in the cases where > they're needed for disambiguation? i realize this makes the > parser more complicated, but it would clearly clean up the syntax > quite a bit if it could be done. > > (for a familiar example where this kind of dual-syntax paradigm > works well, consider the bourne shell, where $a and ${a} are > identical semantically, but not syntacticaly.) > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 28.0 degrees) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
