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" -- Best Regards, André Hentschel