Allow dummies in (un)bundle-by-name and in-place structures

[LukeASomers]

I would appreciate having a little bit more room, and perhaps a bit more organization, in my in-place structures and (un)bundle-by-name calls. Rather than separate them into separate calls, it would be nice just to be allowed to insert a dummy entry in the list. This entry would just let you space out the entries that actually do things. You wouldn't be able to wire anything into them.

Maybe the dummies would be blank, or they could have a black '----' as their name.

[X.]

Not sure what you gain with that, besides one bend in a wire?

[LukeASomers]

First off, it would generally be two bends on each end - one to go south, one to bend back east, then, if you're rebundling, on the other side one to go north and one to go east again.

Make that, two bends on each end for each wire outside of the middle two or so. This suggestion is patently worthless for small clusters. Imagine it with a large cluster.

Second, it prevents having lots of wires from being next to each other as they all diverge from an unbundle or converge on a bundle. Lots of parallel wires following bendy paths make code harder to read.

Third, it brings the named source of data much closer to the action. Less wire length overall, and less commuting vs more getting work done.

Letting you just open up the access block and send things straight across is a great improvement.

[Darren]

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