[PATCH] graphlog: hide internal state of ascii() from users
Peter Arrenbrecht
peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 12:16:01 UTC 2009
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Dennis Brakhane
<brakhane at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply, I missed your reply.
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht
> <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I do not understand. The list returned by asciictx() is used by
>> ascii() to track internal state across invocations.
>
> When I look at the code:
>
>>>> def generate(ui, dag, displayer, showparents, edgefn):
>>>> - seen, base = [], [0, 0]
>>>> + seen, ctx = [], asciictx()
>
> Here you define ctx (which used to be called base) to be asciictx.
>
>>>> for rev, type, ctx, parents in dag:
>
> But in the next line ctx is redefined to be the third element in each
> iteration over dag (hence, dag[x][2])
>
>>>> - ascii(ui, base, type, char, lines, edgefn(seen, rev, parents))
>>>> + ascii(ui, ctx, type, char, lines, edgefn(seen, rev, parents))
>
> And here ctx (which is dag[x][2] instead of asciictx) is used as the
> second argument to ascii.
>
> Therefore, if this code still works, the entire initialization of ctx
> to asciictx would be unnecessary.
>
> That's why I'm confused.
Ah, rightly so. Sorry.
-parren
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