[Lemon-devel] GraphReader

[Kovács Péter]

Hi,

 > Anyway, my conclusion here is that the desing of GraphReader/Writer is
 > confused enough to deserve a thorough rethinking during its port to
 > the new repository.

I do support rethinking the Lemon IO and I would like to help in it.

Peter


Alpár Jüttner írta:
> Hi,
> 
> Well, in the previous mails it was more or less clearly stated that one
> cannot restore the columns without knowing the types of the columns and
> without knowing how they are read from a stream. When I'm complaining
> about it, the answer is that it's pretty much easy to parse it and some
> mysterious 'restricted format' and 'UnformattedReader' comes into the
> picture.
> 
> And all these thing seem to exists in order the a user will be allowed
> to write a space into coordinates (12, 23) and to write
> {"blabla","string"} instead of "{\"blabla\",\"string\"}". Am I right?
> 
> Anyway, my conclusion here is that the desing of GraphReader/Writer is
> confused enough to deserve a thorough rethinking during its port to the
> new repository. It is a very important part of LEMON, so it is surely
> worth doing some more effort to have a really clear and smart design for
> that.
> 
> Now, I try to do my best to understand all the details of the current
> desing, so I suggest to turn back to this topic a bit later.
> 
> Regards,
> Alpar
> 
> 
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