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[Werner Almesberger <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> You have good reading comprehension.

Heh, thanks :-)

> "template" aka "wanted", not "wanted" aka "template".  The distinction
> is important since I have started coding it, and the source reflects the
> latter term.

Good. I like "template" much better than "wanted" as well.

> the user never sees this F4, F5, .. stuff.

Even in the absence of any templates ?

I guess what I'm not quite certain about yet is whether you're
completely getting rid of positional fields (except FP, value,
etc.), or whether the template/user-defined fields still have an
Fn "slot" associated with them.

For example, if you send me a symbol that contains one (and only
one) template field, and this field shows up as F6 = Manufacturer
on your system, would it also show up as F6 = Manufacturer on mine,
or could it show up in any of the F4/F5/... slots, depending on
what other templates live in my global configuration ?

Thanks a lot for explaining the rest !

- Werner