Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:54:48 -0400
From: David Fotland <fotland@hpihoah.cup.hp.com>
Subject: Re: SGF - request for final comments 


I only have one real question left I think...

There are many fields that are more tightly spec'ed for format in FF[4]
than before (ISO date, results, etc).  I've looked at what's out there
in sgf files and I don't plan to write code to parse and convert it to
the standard format.  It's a lot of work, and frankly, it makes the 
data less readable for the users.  I also don't plan to move this text
to the game comment field.  I think the users would like to see the result
in the same place for all game records.

So, my question is:  since I will be writing files that do not conform
to the spec, can I still put FF[4] in them?  I also don't plan to check
the format of the input and decide at that time if it should be FF[4] or
not.  My plan is to always write FF[4] or FF[3] in the output file.

What do you think?

-David