Re: [Lifelines-dev] announcement, proposal, & questions

[John F. C. <JCHBN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

Perry wrote:
> I implemented a report statement done at global scope
> option("explicitvars")
> which will cause any variable used before being set (or globall'd)
> to be flagged as an error. Someone suggested this to me this
> summer, but I cannot now recall whom.

Good move.

> proposal:
> How about if I change "z" (for zip browse) to "zi" (for zip browse
> to indis), so as to make room for analogous ones for other types of
> records ?

Sounds good.

> question #1:
> Is anyone using LifeLines to edit event GEDCOM, or at any rate, using
> events ?

Answer: probably.  However, the treatment of EVEN records has to be
especially flexible, since the LDS dropped the concept from lineage-
linked GEDCOM.

                                     John Chandler