Re: Change in syntax OK for binary data?

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 01:51 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>So, as a straightforward workaround, I suggest a change in syntax--on
>>something that few people have probably used as of yet.  So, anyone
>>have any objections of changing the separator from a comma to a
>>colon.  That will have an appearance similar to "using 1:2:3", for
>>example
>>
>>splot 'scatter2.bin' binary endian=little record=30,30,29,26 u 1:2:3
>>
>>would become
>>
>>splot 'scatter2.bin' binary endian=little record=30:30:29:26 u 1:2:3
> 
> 
> I would rather bracket the set of specifiers while keeping the commas
>  
>  splot 'scatter2.bin' binary endian=little record=(30,30,29,26) u 1:2:3

Well, the appearance isn't bad, but it does look a bit like a quadruple, but that isn't necessarily a problem conceptually.

> 
> 
>>The colon would now be in several place, e.g.,
>>
>>splot 'image.foo' binary center=(50,50):(150,50) with rgbimage
> 
> 
> I don't understand what that one is supposed to do.

There could be multiple images (or whatever) in the file.  

To go along with your suggestion above, it might be

splot 'image.foo' binary center=((50,50),(150,50)) with rgbimage

Again, a collection of pairs; that would work.

Dan