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Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs
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Vlad Harchev |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs |
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Sat, 16 Oct 1999 18:27:44 +0500 (SAMST) |
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > > But you could have started with a copy of SGML.c and made changes to that
> > > copy. No writing-from-scratch of existing stuff would have been required.
> > > (And, to turn your argument around: you could have asked us.)
> >
> > But making modifications inplace makes them automatically up-todate to all
> > code changes (for example you added XML support :)
>
> So it's strictly for your convenience.
>
> Note: I have *not* added XML support. That is completely wrong, let's not
> give false impressions. Any clain that lynx can parse XML in a meaningful
> way would be wrong. (Unless it's an XHTML document that happens to also
> be valid as an HTML document.)
>
> The only XML-ish thing in my patch is that <foo/> is treated as an empty
> element, a construct which happens to also be used in XML. It already
> won't work that way when there's anything between "foo" and the "/"
> (including a space, I think).
OK. But you've done some other changes to SGML.c - and prettysrc is up-today
as I guess too.
> > >[...]
> > > > So, programmers' efforts (regrading studying SGML.c) are less
> > > > signtificant
> > > > than the features/flexibility users get with syntax highlighter IMO.
> > >
> > > Take this a step further, and you are basically saying that all that's
> > > important is that users get features. Don't bother about the coders.
> > > Well if everyone before you had thought that way, you wouldn't have any
> > > sort of more-or-less readable code to start playing with. Maybe you
> > > wouldn't have any free software.
> >
> > If everyone before me had thought that way, I probably wouldn't have
> > started
> > lynx hacking since the features I need were already there.
>
> So all the time Foteos Macrides spent adding comments and explanations
> was wasted time, and if he had not done so, Lynx would be in a better shape
> now (and would have all the features you need)? Yeah right.
As I understand, he was paid for that (he was working in the university as I
understand). I would write comments, spent 10 times more time on lynx code if
I was paid for, but I have to earn money most time... But nevertheless, a lot
of thanks to him and the other guys who coded lynx.
> Those comments are a lot more worth to lynx as a whole than *any* specific
> feature, IMO.
May be.
> [...]
> > But I don't stress on the usability of this. I can remove all such
> > "markup"
> > if you and other lynx-devers prefer (and will never use it in the patches).
>
> So you don't object if someone else removes it?
> (Not that I'm planning to do that in general...)
I won't object - anybody should feel free to do it.
>
> Klaus
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
- Re: lynx-dev "sticky" things, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev "sticky" things, Philip Webb, 1999/10/16
- Re: lynx-dev "sticky" things, Vlad Harchev, 1999/10/17
- Re: lynx-dev "sticky" things, Klaus Weide, 1999/10/17
- Re: lynx-dev "sticky" things, Vlad Harchev, 1999/10/17
- lynx-dev Siberian soldiers' time, Philip Webb, 1999/10/24
- Re: lynx-dev Siberian soldiers' time, Juan-Carlos Lerman, 1999/10/24
- Re: lynx-dev Siberian soldiers' time, Vlad Harchev, 1999/10/24
- lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs, Klaus Weide, 1999/10/16
- Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs, Vlad Harchev, 1999/10/16
- Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs, Klaus Weide, 1999/10/16
- Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs,
Vlad Harchev <=
- lynx-dev SGML.c changes (was coding style, ifdefs), Klaus Weide, 1999/10/17
- Re: lynx-dev SGML.c changes (was coding style, ifdefs), Vlad Harchev, 1999/10/17
- Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/10/16
- Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs, Vlad Harchev, 1999/10/17
- Re: lynx-dev coding style, ifdefs, Mike Castle, 1999/10/16
- Re: lynx-dev megapatch to dev.10 - and a rant, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/10/15
Re: lynx-dev megapatch to dev.10 available, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/10/16