<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The code surely needs to be fixed ;-)<div><br></div><div>/Tony</div><div><br><div><div>On 3 jun 2008, at 17.34, Edwin Fine wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">LOL! That's why I wrote "They Just Read The <u><b>Code</b></u>". It just so happens that in this case, the code and the comments are ACTUALLY congruent!!! Amazing.<br>Ed<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Anders Nygren <<a href="mailto:anders.nygren@gmail.com">anders.nygren@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2008/6/3 Edwin Fine <<a href="mailto:erlang-questions_efine@usa.net">erlang-questions_efine@usa.net</a>>:<br> <div class="Ih2E3d">> Gosh, Vlad, how can you say it is not documented? I mean, it clearly states<br> > in the comments to the Erlang C source code in erts/emulator/beam/dist.c<br> > that<br> ><br> > **<br> > ** n must be a valid node name: string of ([a-z][A-Z][0-9]_-)+<br> > **<br> ><br> > It only took me 20 minutes to track this down. Don't you know, Real<br> > Programmers Don't Need No Steenking Documentation, They Just Read The Code<br> <br> </div>Oh, come on, every Really Real Programmer(tm) knows that You can't<br> trust the comments.<br> Only a noob would believe the lies that are in the comments.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> /Anders :)<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> > ;-)<br> ><br> > (Disclaimer: In case anyone inadvertently takes this rant literally and gets<br> > ticked off, it was written with heavy irony and tongue firmly in cheek).<br> ><br> ><br> > 2008/6/3 Vlad Dumitrescu <<a href="mailto:vladdu55@gmail.com">vladdu55@gmail.com</a>>:<br> >><br> >> Hi,<br> >><br> >> I couldn't find any documentation regarding which node names are allowed,<br> >> so I had to trace it down in the emulator code.<br> >><br> >> Node names must conform to the following regexp: [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+<br> >><br> >> Maybe it should be added to the docs.<br> >> regards,<br> >> Vlad<br> >><br> >> --<br> >> .......__o<br> >> .......\<,<br> >> ....( )/ ( )...<br> >> _______________________________________________<br> >> erlang-questions mailing list<br> >> <a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br> >> <a href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><br> ><br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > erlang-questions mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br> > <a href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><br> ><br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>