[e-lang] Some minor bugs (switch and traceln)

[Kevin Reid]

On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:26, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> I've committed the fixes to a new "proposed" branch. If you have a Git
> clone of the svn repository (made with the command I sent earlier),  
> you
> should be able to review and commit like this:
>
> # Download Thomas's "proposed" branch...
> git pull git://gitorious.org/~tal-itinnov/repo-roscidus/it- 
> innovation.git proposed
>
> # See what he changed, relative to the svn copy...
> git log -p git-svn..

I used this command:
git svn clone svn://svn.synchrona.org/erights/e --stdlayout e-on-java- 
git
followed by the above git pull, and there is no branch called "git- 
svn" (just "master" and the branch I created to pull your patches  
into). Is this just an accident of naming or does it indicate  
something missing?

I'll review your changes as time permits.

Does it create problems for you if they are committed in a different  
order than you did?

>> Also, MarkM and I have agreed you ought to have commit access; the

>> only reason you don't yet is that we haven't been able to contact  
>> Dean
>> to get you added to the password file. (Yes, yes, DVCS is better and
>> all that.)
>
> Thanks, though I'd prefer having someone review and comment on my
> changes, as I'm not still not that familiar with the code.

Of course, but my experience is that it's generally easier if the  
person who constructed the changes commits them — at least in  
Subversion.

> On a related note, I'm updating the Walnut guide on the wiki to answer
> questions from co-workers. I'm writing the new text as if I know what
> I'm talking about, and relying on you guys to fix it...

Understood. The change <http://wiki.erights.org/w/index.php?title=Walnut%2FOrdinary_Programming%2FObjects_and_Functions&diff=3865&oldid=2922 
 > is currently in my todo bucket [it's hardly an ordered list] to  
review; the semantics of the 'interface' construct are rather dubious  
and I'm not sure they should even be in introductory material in detail.

> But, even if the trace messages were going to a file, I'd still rather
> have them wrapped by my text editor, to the width of the window.

I'm in general in favor of soft wrapping, but I'm not familiar with  
the tracing subsystem enough to judge this proposal.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>