From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-05-31T08:29:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Behavior of application changes when adding non-relevant puts

On Mon, 31 May 2004, David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> On Mon, 31 May 2004, Joao Pedrosa wrote:
> 
> > This line:
> > basicthing.rb:254> words.shift
> > Deletes the words before they could used as commands.
> > The @actions is a Hash, which means that what changes
> > from an execution to another is the order of its
> > elements. The "Norden" action may come after the
> > words.first is nil.
> 
> I don't think that happens though, because the previous
> line is:
> 
>       next unless cmd[:verb].include? words.first
> 
> so if 'n[orden]' isn't part of cmd, the shifting should
> not happen.  

Except... 'n' is an abbreviation of another command (nimm), so the
shift *does* happen, in the case of 'n', even if it shouldn't.  So
your analysis is right, and there's one 'n' option too many :-)

Fascinating Heisenbug -- the size of the file seems to change the hash
return order, which in turn determines whether this problem will or
will not bite.  


David

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David A. Black
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