Re: gEDA-user: What is the logic in gnetlist/spice-sdb when to add a 'X' prefix to an identifier?

[al davis <ad151@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Christoph Lechner wrote:
> > How can it know?
>
> Well, I thought: maybe there's some attribute dedicated to
> this case ...

The Spice netlister is loaded with special cases, because the 
Spice syntax is loaded with special cases.

>
> > I recommend that you add the X on the schematic.  Doesn't
> > the netlister just pass the label through?
>
> Not really. If I call the diode XD108, the netlister calls it
> DXD108.

*&%^(*^Z^^^(^%((%

Like I say .... "This is one of the reasons that those in the 
know are pressuring for a shift away from the Spice format."

> Wouldn't it be a work-around to call the diode U108? I'll try
> that.

No.  Then you will get DU108.

On Sunday 08 February 2009, al davis wrote:
>>  I have
>> been thinking of changing it to ignore the letter when the
>> model name gives enough information to determine the type.

That does it ..  I guess the only sane thing to do is to make 
the change.  It really makes it easier to ignore the letter, 
considering plugin conflicts.

It is really worse than it looks on the surface.


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