gEDA-user: net labels question

[al davis]

On Sunday 06 April 2008 19:10, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > My opinion:  No, but the netlister should convert non-compliant
> > names to compliant names, and conversion back should restore the
> > original name.
>
> My opinion: Please don't resort to such syntax tricks behind the
> scenes. Those schemes interact and fail in unexpected ways.  There is
> already quite a bit of names munging in place. IIRC, the unfortunate
> hyphen- breakage of footprint names is already a consequence of non
> standard string interpretation.

You mean like MICRO$01 ? 

gschem and pcb are internal formats, with no standards document.

I agree that whatever we do must be robust.