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- From: markhof@ls12r.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ingolf Markhof)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
- Subject: Galaxy Results Format
- Keywords: galaxy
- Message-ID: <1h781gINNil8@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:17:20 GMT
- Sender: markhof@ls12r (Ingolf Markhof)
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
- Lines: 16
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ls12r.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
-
- I remember, there has been a proposal to change the results format of Galaxy,
- to support parsing of the results by tools. Something like "Record Numbers"
- was proposed...
-
- In contrast, I'd not like to see such a change in the results. I'm currently
- writing a parser for Galaxy results in a yacc/lex environment. I'm almost
- finished and would not like to change all the stuff again. I guess, the same
- ius true for many other people, too.
-
- Anyway, I'd like to have a small change in the galaxy rules to support
- parsing. This change of rules is related to the rules of names in Galaxy.
- It would be _very_ nice to restrict the allowed names in Galaxy: All names
- should be identifiers in the sense of programing languages, i.e. they should
- be forced to start with a letter. Moreover, any Galaxy keywords form the
- section headings should be reserved, i.e. "Status of Players" yields three
- keywords: Status, of, Players.
-