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No warning about missing LRUD measurements
Walls allows typing --
to indicate an LRUD measurement is omitted. But it also accepts less than four measurements, like *2 3 4*
without warning the user. It even accepts zero measurements **
, < >
, etc. It also infers an omitted measurements when there are commas with no number between, like *,,,*
.
This is bad because whoever entered the data may have omitted a measurement by accident. For example they may have typed *2 3 4*
when they meant *2 3 4 5*
, or <1,2,,4>
when they meant <1,2,3,4>
. There is quite a bit of questionable data in the wild because of this. Walls should warn the user and encourage them to explicitly indicate a measurement is omitted by using --
.