From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:43:51 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: L12 is gone again. Magic numbers have been almost eliminated.
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L12 is gone again. Magic numbers have been almost eliminated.
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diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc
index 067ddf1..75c2333 100644
--- a/notes.adoc
+++ b/notes.adoc
@@ -117,10 +117,9 @@ ways:
   and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future
   languages easier.
 
-* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all but of these
-  are in the principal command interpreter function implementing its
-  state machine. the remaining one is a truly mysterious artficat in
-  the player-movement code.
+* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all are in the
+  principal command interpreter function implementing its state
+  machine.
 
 * Linked lists (for objects at a location) are implemented using an array
   of link indices. This is a surviving FORTRANism that is quite unlike
@@ -128,9 +127,6 @@ ways:
   to fix it because doing so would (a) be quite difficult, and (b)
   compromise forward-portability to other languages.
 
-* The code still has an unfortunately high density of magic numbers - in
-  particular, numeric object IDs.  There are plans to fix this.
-
 * Much of the code still uses FORTRAN-style uppercase names.
 
 * The code still assumes one-origin array indexing.  Thus, arrays are