X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=open-adventure.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes.adoc;h=8838393054e37fdadbda049dee027b7b1cc62bb9;hp=c1b5c849603b61edc93074c9b4db53ae8749a3dd;hb=f1d3b75561ad4275155327d13696fb5978f47df0;hpb=d5d6a3e02d344ed4097a38f54ccf6757e627a1f6 diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc index c1b5c84..8838393 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 == @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ 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 liteteral to the command prompt no longer triggers a +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 @@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ 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 @@ -177,6 +173,6 @@ 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 text out of the arbitrary-messages list and associate those -mesages with the objects that conceptually own them. +messages with the objects that conceptually own them. // end