On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 21:29, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > >You are the only person with the fortitude to go near that code lately, > >so all I can say is 'please document the new regime' ;-) > > Well, the new functions are documented in the mh-format man page, and I > even put in the bits about repl's duplicate supression for formataddr > since that was news to me! > > >More seriously, whatever else you discovered as you got there is worth > >documenting as well. It's certainly one of the least understood bits of > >the code base ... > > Maybe I'll add some comments to fmt_compile.c and fmt_scan.c. It's not > _terrible_ (other than that code being horribly non-reentrant, but I > guess that didn't matter too much back then). Also the memory management > is pretty much non-existent as well (I guess for single-shot commands, > it again wasn't a big deal). But once I got into the middle of it > you could follow it reasonably well. And I will note that Oliver Kiddle, > Josh Bressers, Peter Maydell, and Jeffrey Honig have all been inside of > that code, so if I get hit by a truck there is still hope for nmh! :-) >
In other words, no good deed goes unpunished... Thanks Jeff -- Jeffrey C. Honig <[email protected]> http://www.honig.net/jch GnuPG ID:14E29E13 <http://www.honig.net/jch/key.shtml>
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