[Freeciv-Dev] Re: do you really want to work on the ~ (was: registry)

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:35:40AM CET, I got a letter, where Jules
Bean <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
> If I wanted to define a format for arbitrary structured data, I'd make it
> much more like the 'C-like' example earlier in this thread. But now that
> there *is* a standard, there are some advantages to using it.
If you are still talking about easy modifiability, that C-like format is easy
to modify in probably anything and I seriously can't think about anything
easier ;) (even XML mode of emacs - <noflame>altough I never tried it as I just
find emacs itself too hard to control for me so I don't have it even installed,
sorry</noflame>[uh, that xml is not so bad ;]).

About that easy verifiability, it's C-like, not C syntax. You won't be able to
verify it by C compiler probably, but it's really easy to make dummy wrapper to
your parser to verify the corectness of syntax.

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