Can you point me to a link on how this works? I use an RPN calculator, but never heard that term applied to data storage/configuration/however you describe what you are doing here.
Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel > A. Falvo II > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:44 PM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: XML file formats .... was: Re: gEDA-user: Some > footprints I triedto create > > On 3/14/07, Dave McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a very real point, and one that I can speak to from > > experience. A few years ago, I converted a big-ish commercial > > A bit of experience on my end when I was working for Hifn -- > we were in need of an extensible configuration file format, > and XML was an option. However, I ended up implementing a > flat, lexer-only solution, which of course is possible only > with reverse polish notation. So, if you need a *small*, > truely extensible (trivial, even), and easy to write parser, > that doesn't require even more complexities like bison/yacc > (not all platforms have them), then you might want to > consider the RPN option as well. This is one of the reasons > why Postscript is RPN (Postscript printers, while they often > had megabytes and megabytes of RAM, rarely used a significant > fraction of it for anything except bitmap and font data. > Hence, Postscript was ideal because it minimized resource > consumption). > > Just throwing out ideas. > > -- > Samuel A. Falvo II > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user