Re: [tuxracer-devel] Creating new levels (was: (no subject))

[Jasmin P. <jf...@mu...>]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jules Bean wrote:

> Rather than inventing 'Yet Another' textual file format, can I suggest
> you use an existing one?  My current two favourites are XML or Scheme
> (the latter only makes sense if you planned to embed a scheme interp
> anyway, but that *is* quite  good way of allowing scriptability -
> e.g. abominable snowmen wondering around ;-)
>
> The rationale for this is that parsers are moderately annoying to
> write and debug (I've written a few) and any simple language you
> design may later turn out not to have the power you need.  XML and
> Scheme, due to their nested nature, are capable of representing
> arbitrary information relatively compactly, and you can just link in a 
> well-known stable lib to parse the file.

Yes, I agree, and that's why I use a Tcl interpreter to interpret
~/.tuxracer and the course.tcl files.  Adding new Tcl commands is very
easy, and that's what I would do to specify the locations and
orientations of objects on the course (instead of using a separate text
file).

Cheers,
Jasmin