make_zzword() moved to initialize. Pruned unused stuff from cheat.c

[open-adventure.git] / notes.adoc

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@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ The principal maintainers of this code are Eric S. Raymond and Jason
 Ninneman.  Eric received Don Woods's encouragement to update and ship
 the game; Jason signed on early in the process to help. The assistance
 of Peje Nilsson in restructuring some particularly grotty gotos is
-gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing.
+gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing. Aaron
+Traas did a lot of painstaking work to improve test coverage.
 
 == Nomenclature ==
 
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ ways:
   to fix it because doing so would (a) be quite difficult, and (b)
   compromise forward-portability to other languages.
 
-* Muxh of the code still assumes one-origin array indexing.  Thus,
+* Much of the code still assumes one-origin array indexing.  Thus,
   arrays are a cell larger than they strictly need to be and cell 0 is
   unused.
 
@@ -144,4 +145,10 @@ ways:
   like a FORTRAN or BCPL program.  Some (incomplete) effort has been made
   to introduce semantic types.
 
+We have made exactly one minor architectural change.  In addition to the
+old code's per-object state-description messages, we now have a per-object
+message series for state *changes*.  This makes it possible to pull a fair
+amount of test out of the arbitrary-messages list and associate those
+mesages with the objects that conceptually own them.
+
 // end