I will try to write a perl script this weekend to
strip comments using a certain commenting style.
Then, they will be stripped for the official releases,
but not for the snapshots.
Robert
--- Daniel Holmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> of course it's written in perl... sorry my mind
> wandered off for a moment
> there...
>
> you're right, exceptions for everything is not a
> good solution. any better
> ideas? bughunting dynapi right now is a nightmare
> because of the lack of
> comments, i'm just trying to find a way to allow for
> commenting without
> increasing file size (and load time).
>
> we could always add a differend comment type
> (comment-to-be-stripped) like
> "//**" or something. that would solve a couple of
> things. but people would
> have to get used to writing "//**", or their
> comments won't be stripped.
> that would also allow for certain comment to stay in
> the code. (//private
> //read only??)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cameron Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:51 AM
> Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] SSL error for IE 5.5
>
>
> >
> >
> > jspack is written in perl, not lisp. unless you
> know of someother jspack?
> >
> > You could check for http://. I think my point is,
> this brute force
> approach
> > of creating exceptions for everything that could
> possible go wrong is not
> a
> > good approach. It will always be caught out by
> something. I've tried, I
> > tried to get jspack to add semicolons to lines
> that didn't have them, but
> > needed them. Just using regular expression was not
> enough. I needed to
> keep
> > track of state.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Daniel
> > > Holmen
> > > Sent: 30 March 2001 21:50
> > > To: DynAPI-Dev list
> > > Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] SSL error for IE 5.5
> > >
> > >
> > > jspack is a lisp script. there should be no
> problem not removing
> > newlines.
> > > As for http://, this can be avoided by checking
> for "http:" before the
> > > "//"... Unfortunately I'm not that fluent in
> Lisp, but if this is
> > > such a big
> > > deal I can write a C++ program that does the
> same...
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Cameron Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:31 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] SSL error for IE 5.5
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The compression program we use wouldn't have a
> problem except that it
> > > > removes new lines, and not everyone is in the
> habit of putting
> > > semicolons
> > > > at
> > > > the end of a line. However if we told it not
> to remove newlines, then
> > we
> > > > could use it.
> > > >
> > > > I actually found a problem with just removing
> all one line
> > > comments if you
> > > > happen to have a URL somewhere in your code,
> e.g.
> > > > http://dynapi.sourceforge.net suddenly becomes
> http:
> > > >
> > > > The DynAPI fortunately doesn't have anything
> like the above in it (so
> > > far).
> > > >
> > > > The only foolproof solution would be to
> rewrite a compiler that
> > > parses the
> > > > code correctly and rewrites it the way we
> want, without comments, and
> > > > without newlines. This is not an easy task...
> > > >
> > > > Any computer science students out there with
> an LALR grammar for
> > > Javascript
> > > > and a desire to write a parser?
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Daniel
> > > > > Holmen
> > > > > Sent: 30 March 2001 21:08
> > > > > To: DynAPI-Dev list
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] SSL error for IE
> 5.5
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What if everyone adds their comments as
> one-line comments (//).
> These
> > > are
> > > > > easy to strip without any fuzz.
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Cameron Hart"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:22 AM
> > > > > Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] SSL error for IE
> 5.5
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It was a workaround for a problem where IE
> did not receive
> > > > > events in empty
> > > > > > layers. So as long as you don't want to
> catch events on empty
> > layers
> > > > you
> > > > > > can
> > > > > > remove it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As for the commments, there was talk of
> having a fully
> > > > > commented version,
> > > > > > and a compressed version. But the
> compressor (jspack) was pretty
> > > fussy,
> > > > > and
> > > > > > with all the different coding styles of
> the contributors to
> > > > > this project,
> > > > > > it
> > > > > > didn't work very well. So I think we are
> back to very few
> > > > > comments again.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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