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On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:56 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:
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>> so, "load the design files as raw data" seems to mean so that the
>> same input could be recreated from the internal data representation.
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> Well, assuming we actually record *all* the data. My point was,
> whatever data we care about, we do the least amount of processing on,
> unless the backend asks for it.
In the end, we care about all of the input data. There is no way to say reliably: "we won't need item X". And this is the flaw of top-down design from a set of scenarios. It results in a grab-bag of features without a foundation.
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> I didn't expect *everything* to be read in *exactly*.
I expect everything to be parsed into a data structure, from which the input could be reconstructed if necessary, but which is also suitable as input to processing functions in the language.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
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