[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r3169 - trunk/bin

[Andy Buckley]

On 29/06/11 21:54, Frank Siegert wrote:
> On 29/06/11 22:50, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Well, my #1 reason is the principle of least surprise: it's IMO the
>> "normal" behaviour that the last value that a parameter is set to is the
>> one that applies. In fact, I have a lot of existing .dat files which
>> have specifically provided an override for some generated value which
>> presumably will have stopped working in r3139! I only discovered this
>> behaviour when being confused by some .dat files with a config that used
>> to work!
>
> But in the case where you have an override in a .dat file you wouldn't
> have yet another .dat-file-specific override in your make-plots.conf
> which you want to be ignored, would you?
> This is the use case that I was talking about... if the implementation
> in make-plots did not (only) do that, then I agree that we should look
> at it again.

Yeah, I had a feeling there was going to be something like that going on ;)

The implementation that I reversed this evening meant that if a header 
section contained

XMin=0
Xmin=1

(for example), then the effective value of XMin when drawing the plots 
would be 0. I don't think we want that!

Andy

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