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Re: [Patch]: Ncurses frame drawing
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote:
> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >FWIW, wouldn't it be cleaner to make "alternate_charset_active" a
> >member of dev_state instead of introducing a new global variable?
>
> Yes, although original_codepage was a viable candidate for a global
> variable?. Never mind, but then either:
Well, think "historically grown code".
> 1) that alternate_charset check which currently is in str_to_con
> (centralized), needs to dispersed over all calls to str_to_con.
> (Currently, 1, AFAICS). Prone to bugs, if you ask me because this could
> be forgotten in the future, unless this one call will remain the only one.
> 2) str_to_con has to become a member of dev_state too.
Point 2 has some merits. Are you interested to do that change, Micha?
Of course, con_to_str should become a dev_state member then, too.
Corinna
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