Re: [Dissco-list] Thoughts on input file

[<ba...@ui...>]

I can't see why that would be to hard to do. (to add the comments)

also I was thinking about allowing comments inside the config
file itself...any thoughts?

-Alok

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:05:49 -0600
>From: "John Loucaides (UIUC)" <lou...@ui...>  
>Subject: Re: [Dissco-list] Thoughts on input file  
>To: dis...@li...
>
>
>I agree with pretty much everything in your email. My only
selection is 
>pertaining to the following section...
>
>On Wednesday 15 February 2006 6:54 pm, ba...@ui... wrote:
>> The only other decision that I think needs to be made at this
>> point, is whether to make these readCompute functions as
>> keywords in the file, or to simply interperet them as strings
>> to be handeled later. My intuition is to handle them as
>> keywords, because that would save us the string comparison.
>> The argument against that is with regards to extending the
>> number of functions later. I dont see why it would be any
>> harder, since the same code would have to be written, it would
>> just involve re-running flex and bison to re-generate the
>> header for the parser, and maybe a little othre work,
>> depending on how we decide to plug everything together.
>
>As I see it, the difficulty is not really in what work needs
to be done, but 
>in familiarity with tools. If there are simple directions
that someone can 
>use (like "Place additional read functions here." or similar)
to add new ways 
>of reading, then there should be no problem... especially if
they're just 
>writing C/C++ code. A "Put C++ code here" kind of thing would
probably be 
>ideal, actually. Then we can just put the bison command in
the makefile 
>somewhere, and it'll be set.
>
>What do you think?
> - John
>
>
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