On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 09:43 -0500, John Doty wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:55:04 -0500
> > al davis <ad...@freeelectron.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Saturday 25 December 2010, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote:
> >>> * If the part in question can usually be described by a
> >>> single value, for the purposes of the signal flow in the
> >>> schematic that is, then give it a default of "value=0".
> >> 
> >> No.  Zero is almost always wrong.  
> > 
> > Exactly my point - it is *supposed* to be wrong.
> 
> But *I* use 0 as a value rather frequently. Depends on what you're doing with 
> the toolkit.

Likewise.. I often use "zero" ohms resistor links to act as placeholders
were resistor "might" be required for slowing down edges, or isolating a
signal for probing.

Any default should be blank, or an invalid value. "?" would work, but
I'm not going to paint this particular shed any further.

-- 
Peter Clifton

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University of Cambridge,
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