[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Feature Requests-1231444 ] ADD to accept PRExxx tag

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Feature Requests item #1231444, was opened at 2005-07-02 03:55
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Category: Tag modification
Group: For 6.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Paul W. King (kingpaul)
Assigned to: Frank Kliewe (frank_kliewe)
>Summary: ADD to accept PRExxx tag

Initial Comment:
Please have ADD accept PRExxx

Paul W. King
TM SB, OGL/PL Chimp, Data Gibbon, BoD

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>Comment By: LegacyKing (amaitland)
Date: 2008-01-15 18:16

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Title change to make the intent easier to understand - duplicate with
another similar request.

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Comment By: Frank Kliewe (frank_kliewe)
Date: 2006-08-29 08:09

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At the moment we have 11 Specs discussions more or less
going on at Experimental. I don't think it's wise to throw
another discussion up at the moment, as that would only
distract right now. 

I'll start a discussion on this once we have finalized one
or more of the other discussions. I will try to push more on
those (Post more active myself, WAKE UP calls once per week,
Polls if nothing comes forth, etc).

-- Frank

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Comment By: Andrew McDougall (tir-gwaith)
Date: 2006-08-22 19:27

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I see CHOOSE as a simple chooser.  I don't see ADD the same
way.  I know a few coders want it that way, but it way
overcomplicates things.

We definitely need an ADD function with PRExxx.  I just
don't like the syntax.  To do this, I think we need to take
ADD:xxx back to the drawing board. ( ) isn't used anywhere
else, and we could probably design this better with two
parse characters instead of one.

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Comment By: Frank Kliewe (frank_kliewe)
Date: 2006-08-21 10:00

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Needed? Yes.

But I'm not sure on the proposed syntax, though. When we
recently discussed the ADD:FEAT tag it was suggested that an
ADD tag should really just add something and the selection
should be made in a seperated chooser. The suggested syntax
would actually go in the opposite direction.

Tir, would you like to comment?

-- Frank

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Comment By: Martijn Verburg (karianna)
Date: 2005-09-27 05:08

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Still need?

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Comment By: Eric Beaudoin (ericbeaudoin)
Date: 2005-07-02 08:11

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There are two things to think about here:

ADD:xxx()|PRExxx i.e. a way to embed a PRExxx tag to the 
ADD tag so that the tag as a whole is apply or not. This is 
how it is embedded with other tags and ADD should not work 
differently.

The second thing is that we also want something to work as 
a filter to the list of things to add. This is list aggregation, it 
should not use PRExxx tags. It should stuff like TYPE=xx, 
TYPE!=x, LEVEL>=n, PCQUALIFY=YES, PCQUALIFY=NO, 
etc. Let's not use the PRExxx tags in the list aggregator on 
account of the pain we will feel because of the fully automatic 
machine gun that will repeatedly shoot our foot at high speed.

So, for this FREQ, we should use a syntax like:

ADD:<add type> [ "|" <optional parameter> ] "(" <list of 
choices> ")" [ "|" <optional pretags> ]

Make sense?

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Comment By: Andrew McDougall (tir-gwaith)
Date: 2005-07-02 05:08

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What, no syntax suggestion?

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