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Re: gEDA-user: [RFC 1/6] Non-Turing-complete configuration files.



On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 11:15 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > Since you (nor anyone else) has come up with any use-case or reason as
> > to why you want / need executable configs (as a user), I think you
> > should leave the implementation details up to those who would be doing
> > it. I really believe this is easier to implement than you're making  
> > out.
> 
>    Just to be clear here (as I hadn't followed much of this thread),  
> we're only talking about removing executable configs, not removing  
> scheme-scriptability, is that correct?

Exactly.

The config syntax wouldn't even be changing.. just a more formal
specification that "don't expect this file to be _executed_ by the
scheme interpreter.


-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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Cambridge
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