mapserver.h - Frank goes postal

[Steve Lime]

Anything that keeps you sane and sober is fine with me...

>>> On 10/30/2007 at 10:35 PM, in message <4727F815.8040907 at pobox.com>, Frank
Warmerdam <warmerdam at POBOX.COM> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm sorry, but in a fit of drunken wanton behavior, this evening I have
> gone through mapserver.h adding "frank style" comment blocks before each
> typedef for MapServer objects.  Stuff like:
> 
> /************************************************************************/
> /*                                mapObj                                */
> /*                                                                      */
> /*      encompasses everything used in an Internet mapping              */
> /*      application.                                                    */
> /************************************************************************/
> 
> typedef struct map_obj{ /* structure for a map */
> ...
> 
> I'm not asking others to maintain this style but I just fell off the edge
> of sanity paging through mapserver.h trying to find layerObj one more
> time.  mapserver.h is a terrible tangle of SWIG ifdefs, and otherwise
> indistinguishable (to me) definitions.  At least I feel the above blocks
> give major "mileposts" along the way.
> 
> BTW, did you know on the GeoTools project developers aren't allowed to
> commit code while under the inflence of alcohol?  More the fools are
> they!
> 
> Best regards,