gEDA-user: net labels question

[Kai-Martin Knaak]

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:01:41 -0500, John Griessen wrote:

> al davis wrote:
> 
>> The leading "+" is one of those problems.  Underscores are usually ok.
>> Embedded "+" is also sometimes a problem.  "foo+bar" ..  is that the
>> sum of foo and bar?
> 
> Does everyone understand a trailing underscore as negative logic? A
> trailing * is not so hot script-wise...

Would it be very hard to make net names more robust against use of all 
the characters printed on modern keyboard? Footprint names could benefit 
from such robustness too. Hyphens in the footprint brought quite a bit of 
frustration during my early days of geda adoption.

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