Generate newdb.[ch] at build time, parallel with database.[ch].

[open-adventure.git] / notes.adoc

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@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ a "seed" command) will replay reliably, including random events.
 
 The adventure.text file is no longer required at runtime.  Instead, it
 is compiled at build time to a source module containing C structures,
-which is then linked to the advent binary.
+which is then linked to the advent binary. There is an adventure.yaml file
+as well; this is also compiled to C code, and will eventually replace
+adventure.text altogether.
 
 The game-save format has changed.  This was done to simplify the
 FORTRAN-derived code that formerly implemented the save/restore
@@ -79,8 +81,10 @@ ugly and quite unreadable.
 
 Jason Ninneman and I have moved it to what is almost, but not quite,
 idiomatic modern C.  We refactored the right way, checking correctness
-against a comprehensive test suite that we built first and verified with
-coverage tools. This is what you are running when you do "make check".
+against a comprehensive test suite that we built first and verified
+with coverage tools (we have 88% coverage, with the remaining 12%
+confined to exception cases that are difficult to reach). This is
+what you are running when you do "make check".
 
 This move entailed some structural changes.  The most important was
 the refactoring of over 350 gotos into if/loop/break structures.  We
@@ -109,7 +113,6 @@ ways:
   We don't need whatever minor performance gains this might collect,
   and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future
   languages easier.
-
 * There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all of these
   are in the principal command interpreter function implementing its
   state machine.