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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:24:41AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Today I am mostly hating Makefiles, for they require the use of tabs and
> not spaces.
Speaking of crappy, archaic data formats, have a look at an Aegis change
file that you're supposed to type in by hand.
brief_description = "Create initial skeleton.";
description = "A simple calculator using native \
floating point precision. \
The four basic arithmetic operators to be provided, \
using conventional infix notation. \
Parentheses and negation also required.";
cause = internal_enhancement;
Yes, newlines have to be escaped a-la C strings. And you need the trailing
semicolon even though there's no grammatic need for either. The author says
this is better because you get better error messages if you leave off an end
quote.
*boggle* That's right, its optimized for the error condition.
Its things like that why I've given up on Aegis.
--
Michael G Schwern schwern@xxxxx.xxx http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
When you remove the barriers to changing things, you also remove the
barriers to fixing what's broken.
-- Dan Gillmor
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