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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/09/2012 09:38 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Some more feedback:
>
> (segment ...) IS on one line, so good there.
>
> Wonder if (segment) is our best keyword for what is a trace/track.  specctra uses
> (wire).   Could check EAGLE's new XML format, if we're lacking opinions, which would be
> atypical.
>
>
> Wonder of the flags in (segment (status HERE) )  should not be spelled out, and omitted
> when they are defaulted.  This way you can omit (status).

(status) is 3 tokens, and with the hex value you have 4.  So if you can use "optional
presence" to get the average token count here under 4, along with increased readability
over a hex code, this is a win.


> You could use single keyword presence, rather than name/value pairs obviously, like you
> did for module_text hide, which needs leading whitespace BTW.
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