Drop clang debug test to restore pipeline to working order.

[open-adventure.git] / notes.adoc

diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc
index 8838393054e37fdadbda049dee027b7b1cc62bb9..14ba9e30438206c6b2de68235f8fbe04f9ac7d10 100644 (file)
--- a/notes.adoc
+++ b/notes.adoc
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ Bug fixes:
   incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal 
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 
   incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal 
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 

+* A few minor typos have been corrected: absence of capitalization on
+  "Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent selling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
+  "eying" for "eyeing". "thresholds" for "threshholds".
+

 * Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
   say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
 
 * Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
   say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
 


@@ -76,9 +80,6 @@ Unrecognized words are no longer truncated to 5 characters and
 uppercased when they are echoed. The "-o" (oldstyle) option restores
 this behavior.
 
 uppercased when they are echoed. The "-o" (oldstyle) option restores
 this behavior.
 

-Typing a numeric literal to the command prompt no longer triggers a
-fatal error. This change is reverted by the oldstyle option. 
-

 A "seed" command has been added.  This is not intended for human use
 but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so
 that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
 A "seed" command has been added.  This is not intended for human use
 but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so
 that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)


@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ The original code was greatly complicated by a kind of bit-packing
 that was performed because the FORTRAN it was written in had no string
 type.  Text from the adventure.text file was compiled into sequences
 of sixbit code points in a restricted character set, packed 5 to a
 that was performed because the FORTRAN it was written in had no string
 type.  Text from the adventure.text file was compiled into sequences
 of sixbit code points in a restricted character set, packed 5 to a

-32-bit word (it seems clear from the code that words were originally
+32-bit word (and it seems clear from the code that words were originally

 *6* chars each packed into a PDP-10 36-bit word).  A command noun or
 verb was one of these words, and what would be string operations in a
 more recent language were all done on sequences of these words.
 *6* chars each packed into a PDP-10 36-bit word).  A command noun or
 verb was one of these words, and what would be string operations in a
 more recent language were all done on sequences of these words.