On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:31 AM, Patrick Bernaud wrote: > Hi John, > > John Doty writes: >> [...] >> This is a coding error somewhere. There should be nothing wrong with an >> empty string as an attribute: it's a perfectly good string. > > No, actually, an attribute is required to have a value,
There seems to be no good design reason for this restriction: an empty string is still a perfectly good string, just as zero is a perfectly good number. > see > documentation Perhaps it would be better to remove this restriction from both the code and documentation. That would simplify the documentation, and possibly the code, too. > (and code) for o_attrib_string_get_name_value() in > libgeda/src/o_attrib.c. > > Regards, > > > Patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user