Change the error datatype from a cluster to a class

[Rio C.]

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Feb 25 2009, 09:15 AM)

I recently placed an idea in front of the LV R&D team to think about: Shouldn't error terminals be moved -- on all nodes -- to be the top terminal of all nodes? That is the one consistent location that you could then string an error wire across between functions, regardless of type. Then if you have a second type that is railroading along side the error code, have it running in the second-from-the-top terminal. This means that you have one side of your node that you can get values to the other terminals without crossing your two railroad track wires, and your nodes can stay top aligned to minimize bends in the error wire.

Yeah, it'd be a big change to the diagram to do it today. But if we didn't have 20 years of diagrams, wouldn't that be a better strategy?

While you're at it if you're going to change the error terminals it may also a good recommendation to change the error cluster... into a class.