Re: why does "integer" in q2c now parse a list?

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 07:43:17PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     The q2c input format allows "integer" and "integer list" as value
     types.  The former is supposed to parse a single integer, the
     latter an arbitrary number of integers.  But it looks like you
     changed it so that "integer" also parses a list of integers.  I
     don't understand; why?

I extended the semantics slightly.

"integer" and "double" still parse a single value, and 
"{integer,double} list" still parse arbitrary # of values.

The difference is, that previously, "integer" did not allow a value to
be given multiple times. (Actually IIRC, the parser allowed it, but
the value overwrote any previous ones).


Some commands have {integer,double} subcommands for which it is
meaningful to say:

COMMAND /var = x, y
        /SUBCMD 3
        /SUBCMD 99
        /SUBCMD 42
        .

and for this to have different semantics to: 

COMMAND /var = x, y
        /SUBCMD 3, 99, 42
        .


J'

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