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: I'd be open to standardizing on CSV as a format for tabular data, and hold a strong recommendation that tasks that make use of tabular data present it in CSV, and that examples that make use of it import it from such. It depends on it being fairly portable; one would be increasing the complexity of every task to including either processing stream input or file input. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 21:36, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
: I'd be open to standardizing on CSV as a format for tabular data, and hold a strong recommendation that tasks that make use of tabular data present it in CSV, and that examples that make use of it import it from such. It depends on it being fairly portable; one would be increasing the complexity of every task to including either processing stream input or file input. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 21:36, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:: Real code parses it in whatever idiotic form the local legislature decides to publish it in. These days, that means whatever format one gets when one cuts-n-pastes it out of some PDF… –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 22:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
:: Real code parses it in whatever idiotic form the local legislature decides to publish it in. These days, that means whatever format one gets when one cuts-n-pastes it out of some PDF… –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 22:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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: The issues raised are certainly interesting. However after the discussion of the merits of two alternative forms for specifying the table data, it seems to me that the data format chosen by the J implementation (and others) is a nice compromise between them - easily understandable/editable by the "casual maintainer" (especially when the values are lined up) and not bulky or misleading. |
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:While I think the idea of standardizing on CSV for presenting tablular (and list?) data to be used in a task has some merit, I'm not sure that adding routines to all such tasks for reading/parsing it from a CSV file is desirable. I'm pretty sure there are already tasks for reading and writing files in CSV format.--[[User:Tikkanz|Tikkanz]] 22:48, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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