[erlang-questions] Allowed node names

[Edwin Fine]

:(
You were right. I should have known better <hangs head in shame>

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Anders Nygren <anders.nygren@REDACTED>
wrote:

> 2008/6/4 Edwin Fine <erlang-questions_efine@REDACTED>:
> > Heck, you are right. I didn't really look at the RE in the comment
> closely.
> > ([A-Z][a-z][0-9]_-)+ will match Bd9_-, but not abcde. That's wild.
>
> What did I tell You?
> Never, ever, trust the comments.
>
> /Anders
>
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4 Jun 2008, at 2:51 am, Edwin Fine wrote:
> >>
> >>> Gosh, Vlad, how can you say it is not documented? I mean, it clearly
> >>> states in the comments to the Erlang C source code in
> >>> erts/emulator/beam/dist.c that
> >>>
> >>> **
> >>> ** n must be a valid node name: string of ([a-z][A-Z][0-9]_-)+
> >>> **
> >>>
> >>> It only took me 20 minutes to track this down. Don't you know, Real
> >>> Programmers Don't Need No Steenking Documentation, They Just Read The
> Code
> >>>  ;-)
> >>>
> >> What makes this savage joke even better is that
> >> >> The comment is WRONG <<
> >>
> >> It should be [-_a-zA-Z0-9]+ .
> >> 'a@REDACTED' *is* valid, but since it isn't
> >> a lower case letter followed by an upper case letter
> >> followed by a digit followed by a dash or underscore,
> >> the comment claims that it isn't.
> >>
> >> It gets even better:  the next comment, "Scanned past the host name",
> >> is *also* wrong.  The bit that has been scanned past is the *node*
> >> name; the host name follows the subsequent '@'.
> >>
> >> --
> >> "I don't want to discuss evidence." -- Richard Dawkins, in an
> >> interview with Rupert Sheldrake.  (Fortean times 232, p55.)
> >>
> >>
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