Am 27.02.2011 20:37, schrieb Max TenEyck Woodbury:
I've picked up Perl in the last couple weeks. An interesting language with lots of adopted features. It's been easy to learn, so I think I will _not_ need help with the language itself, but I will listen to any advice.
When i started with Wine developing i tackled winemaker which is also in perl. I also had to learn Perl for it, so i know you situation. Perl is truely cool, but the "inline" use of RegEx is sometimes confusing (So are $_ and friends) and i hate to use curly brackets for every "if".
The c2man.pl code is extensive and sparsely commented. In order to understand what it does, I've made a transcription of it with a more compact style and lots more comments. I check the rewrite against the source code so there should not be any serious errors. There are also a number of what I believe to be defects in the original and places where my comments may be inappropriate or my style may be very objectionable. _This_ is what I need help with.
Would someone be willing to review my rewrite? If so, send me e-mail so I can arrange to get a copy of it to you.
Remember that you won't get one big patch in at once, you need to split it up later.
P.S. to AJ et al.
There is a _lot_ of documentation embedded in the wine code, but it is hard to find at the moment. I'd like to see it indexed and this is the program that does the extraction and indexing. Advice on making this new version available and active are in order.
I think the idea of building upon the existing "documentation" somewhere else has a better chance than the "deal on the 100"