Re: Re: RecDescent: binary shift in exe block?

thanks for the suggestions. for the present, i have taken the approach of putting the divides and multiplies in the code -- but i'm not happy as it is no longer immediately clear what is going on, and i have had to fall back on the programmers' bane: comments. :-) i'm tired of seeing:

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# /4194304  -- that's right shift by 22
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....and even more worried about what other surprises await this poor hack in programmer's clothing.

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Re: Re: Re: RecDescent: binary shift in exe block? by diotalevi (Canon) on May 13, 2003 at 03:36 UTC
It gets worse - in pursuit of your problem I tried looking through P::RD source code and its almost comment-void. I was expecting to find the bits where it parses the grammar but it too much of a pain. 76K of source code and only a dozen lines of comment. Ick.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: RecDescent: binary shift in exe block? by bear_hwn (Acolyte) on May 13, 2003 at 18:11 UTC
ick indeed! my beastie is 3k lines and about 40% comments. (because when i come back i'll not remember why i did what i did.) thanks for the effort. i'll just leave the mults & divs & comments and move on to the other issues awaiting as i try to get a substantially useful tool out of this - that being what i need (the enlightenment was more a 'want' so i don't fall in any tiger traps.) thanks again! hwn	[reply]