Are standards for official parts too strict?

[Michael Heidemann]

I just saw this

Code:

is due to the fact that DATHeader for some time brute-forcely replaced all comments 0 by 0 //,
even empty ones. For empty
0
lines that never was a requirement.

and like to leave my (author of DATHeader) comment.

The 0 at the start of the line indicates this line to be a comment. The first word that follows this 0 (separated by a white space) might be a comment or a Meta command.
To indicate that the content of the line is a comment and not any file processing directive the // has been choosen.
DATHeader see that it is not a meta command and therefore it has to be a comment, so add a //. It is that simple.
Just do not use a single 0 on a line, instead leave that line blank and the result is perfect for all

It is just coded what I read in the specs:
Body Meta Commands

Code:

Only the following meta commands are permitted in the body of official parts:

    0 // style comments
    BFC CW
    BFC CCW
    BFC CLIP
    BFC CLIP CW
    BFC CLIP CCW
    BFC NOCLIP
    BFC INVERTNEXT

Taken from http://www.ldraw.org/article/512.html#metabody
I (or in that case DATHeader) does only force things that are discribed in our standards!

If that is not the case, please drop me a note (or even better - post in the forum) so I will change DATHeader accordingly like I have done now for some years.

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mikeheide