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The Oracle files, or at least some of them, finally turned up on Friday.
The format has been messed up, though... Most lines have a varying
number of trailing blanks.
And the braces are gone from all costs!
Is this good or bad? Well, I guess it might make the file more readable
for human eyes. But it will make it much harder to write a program to
read it for you. Ordinary casting costs are all right but it's no fun to
single out activations costs from the text. And there is no longer a way
to tell that the 3s in the lines (from the old file)
Sorcery spells cost {3} more to play.
and
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 3 or less.
are actually printed differently.
Maybe this doesn't really matter... Personally I still hope that this is
an honest mistake and that the files will be replaced soon...
/ug
The Oracle files, or at least some of them, finally turned up on Friday.
The format has been messed up, though... Most lines have a varying
number of trailing blanks.
And the braces are gone from all costs!
Is this good or bad? Well, I guess it might make the file more readable
for human eyes. But it will make it much harder to write a program to
read it for you. Ordinary casting costs are all right but it's no fun to
single out activations costs from the text. And there is no longer a way
to tell that the 3s in the lines (from the old file)
Sorcery spells cost {3} more to play.
and
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 3 or less.
are actually printed differently.
Maybe this doesn't really matter... Personally I still hope that this is
an honest mistake and that the files will be replaced soon...
/ug
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