Re: 'with pixels' (was Re: Engines are started; ...)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > The option of omitting the using specification is legacy behaviour of
> > gnuplot.  How about this proposal, then: require binary file always to
> > have using specifiers, and be done with that complication.
> >
> > > The question for me is should the user be required
> > > *always* to enter specifically how columns are to be used via "using"?
> 
> Requirement for using specifiers always for plot ... binary would be rather
> cumbersome. Current syntax is OK, e.g.
> 	plot 'x.edf' binary with image

Well, it turns out that this requirement causes significant design
problems in the code.  We have to trade off between ease of the user
interface and clear design of the code.  At the current stage, I would
really favour the latter.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.