From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-29 06:07:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D1DB13C.A76EDDD1@attbi.com> From: Mark Biggar X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-{C-UDP; EBM-SONY1} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal {long} References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.235.88.57 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1025356053 12.235.88.57 (Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:07:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:07:33 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:07:34 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26791 Date: 2002-06-29T13:07:34+00:00 List-Id: "Bobby D. Bryant" wrote: > I would like to see direct, high-level support for loading/saving 2-D > tables, with the tables laid out in 2-D fashion (with row and column > headers) in the config file. For instance, suppose the program in > question is a wargame. Most such games require a table of Unit_Type > x Terrain_Type --> Movement_Cost (and many other 2-D tables as well), > and it would make life very easy for the scenario designer if s/he > could simply type the data into the config file _as_a_2-D_table_. This seems to be a specialized need that should be handled like binary data: have a file-name in the configfile. -- Mark Biggar mark.a.biggar@attbi.com