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>
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/Anders :)<br>
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> ;-)<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>
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