X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=open-adventure.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes.adoc;h=3c568ce008a42b11bef13e28cec034b1365e1bfc;hp=538de28a347624f318044db3112df091b311de7a;hb=b84a2392a1ab43b2beee2c01b10c4663c887b1a3;hpb=7bb2cda986e7357547ffff85268c765b53257111 diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc index 538de28..3c568ce 100644 --- a/notes.adoc +++ b/notes.adoc @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ 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 and code cleanups. Aaron Traas did a lot of painstaking work to improve -test coverage. +test coverage, and factored out the last handful of gotos. == Nomenclature == @@ -76,9 +76,6 @@ Unrecognized words are no longer truncated to 5 characters and 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) @@ -155,10 +152,6 @@ ways: and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future languages easier. -* 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 normal practice in C or any more modern language. We have not tried