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Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:
> On Mar 11, Greg Harvey decided to present us with:
> >
> > Commands:
> >
> > %start : appears at the beginning of each mail; possibly superfluous,
> > but makes it easier to get right to the important stuff without having
> > to grovel over mail headers. This is the only thing not being moved to
> > the alist thing.
>
> Instead of %start (which implies a %stop, and %stop would be
> cool after all so you can leave your .sig), why not just a
> convention to put the outmost "(" and ")" by themselves?
>
> If you're worried about mail headers, rule that before the first
> "(" you need an empty line [pattern "\n\n("]. For example:
>
> (
> (name "Pinto Simulator")
> (password "pinto forever!")
> (status "The current version is 1.2, and includes numerous reality "
> "enhancements.")
> )
Yeah, it was inspired by excessive laziness >;') The only restriction
really needed is that each entry be closed and that the first
character on a line starting the entry is a '(' (I don't think that
can hit mail headers, though I'd really have to dig up the rfc to be
sure)... I actually prefer `((name "foo"))', because that's the way
I'm used to writing & reading scheme. As long as the entry is
something that can be 'read', life stays blindingly simple :)
> And lets me update more than one entry in a single mail message.
You could do that with either, though each submission should get it's
own alist (another laziness, but this is a more reasonable
requirement... it's not really well defined to have an alist with the
same key twice).
> [BTW I don't want a "Pinto Simulator". In Brazilian Portuguese
> it would mean a very nasty thing. No I won't give details. ;-)]
I probably don't want to know :) The reference, in case anyone's
interested, is to a car once manufactured by Ford, which has become
somewhat infamous in North American culture due to it's tendency to
explode... you probably wouldn't want a simulator of the car, either
(though that could make for an insane racing game).
--
Greg