[Freeciv-Dev] Re: commandline syntax and semantics (was: Server/ruleset unification)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Arien Malec wrote:
> First, just to be clear, all my examples are about object types, not 
> instances.
> So when I wrote "unit.archers" I should have written "units.archers"
> 
> In sum, our disagreement is: I would create a new identifier to refer to
> advances, etc., whereas you would use name_orig. Not much difference, and I
> won't argue if the consensus of the list is for name_orig rather than a new
> identifier.

And I don't even think there is real disagreement.  In the long run
you probably support for both.  In the short term, all you need
is backward compatibility with the existing command line syntax.

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Reinier