[Liblas-devel] Point implementation proposal

[Howard Butler]

On Jul 25, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> A variation of this could be to physically separate responsibilities.
> By default, I/O operation could be performed on raw data, without any
> interpretation. Interpretation is left to user.
> User has liberty to choose to use point interpreter provided by libLAS
> or to implement his own.

One then asks, what's the point of libLAS then? ;)

> 
> A point interpreter could be passed to reader for better, seamless
> integration.

I like the idea of an interpreter being applied to a reader.  My schema idea is really a schema (layout) + interpreter.  I hadn't described the distinction between the two in my description of the schema stuff.