Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:17:36 -0700

On 10/09/2013 11:17 AM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> Hi Andrew
>
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2013, 16:38:53 schrieb Johnson, Andrew N.:
>> Question for core developers: Should we modify the Enum string parser
>> to try using case-independent or other fuzzy string comparisons if a
>> string value doesn't match using the case-dependent comparison or
>> after trying to convert the string to an integer? We could make the
>> IOC dwim ("do what I mean", a Perl term) in the case below, but the
>> result is a less precise database so I'm not sure if this is a good
>> idea or not and how far we should take it.
> I share your reservations about making the parser more dwim. My main 
> objective is that it makes the specification more complex.

Me too.  It is occasionally annoying, but I think better in the long
term, to have string matching.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System