[Therion] warning -- equate used to define new station

[Martin Sluka]

Hi Olly, 

it is clear, that there are very useful features in Survex which are not in Therion and vice versa.

Isn’t the right time to make a developer conference of both clans together?

;)

m.s.


> 3. 8. 2017 v 3:04, Olly Betts via Therion <therion at speleo.sk>:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:42:47PM +0700, Vasily Vl. Suhachev wrote:
>> Have we a legal way to define a station to "equate" to? Or recipe to export
>> already defined station to upper namespace as in Survex with its
>> (deprecated) global prefix "\"?
> 
> You don't need to use deprecated features to achieve this in Survex,
> you can pretty much just do what it seems you are trying to do with
> Therion:
> 
> *begin cave
> *equate fixed some_path.fixed
> *begin some_path
> fixed 2 10.00 090 00
> *end some_path
> *equate fixed other_path.fixed
> *begin other_path
> fixed 2 12.34 180 00
> *end other_path
> *end cave
> 
> Survex doesn't warn about using *equate to create a "well-known" alias
> for a station.  That's one of the intended uses for *equate.
> 
> Cheers,
>    Olly
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