Hi Peff,
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Jeff King wrote:
> > It's a shame that we can't just factor out this common
> > code, but I don't think it's quite long enough to merit
> > the boilerplate. The interesting part of each function
> > happens inside the loop. If C had lambdas, we could do
> > something like:
> >
> > foreach_path_from(stdin, nul_term_line) {
> > /* now do something interesting with "buf"
> > and some other local variables */
> > }
Technically, we do not have to do lambdas for that paradigm, we could
introduce a new data type and a reader, i.e. something like this:
struct path_reader {
FILE *in;
int nul_term_line;
struct strbuf path;
};
#define PATH_READER_INIT { NULL, STRBUF_INIT };
int read_next_path(struct path_reader *reader, FILE *in, int nul_term_line)
{
if (!reader->in) {
... [initialize] ...
}
... [read and possibly unquote path] ...
}
void cleanup_path_reader(struct path_reader *reader)
{
if (reader->in) {
fclose(reader->in);
reader->in = NULL;
}
strbuf_release(&reader->buf);
}
And then the repeated code could be replaced by something like this:
struct path_reader path_reader = PATH_READER_INIT;
while (read_next_path(&reader, stdin, 1)) {
... [work with reader->path.buf] ...
}
cleanup_path_reader();
Probably this is actually not limited to path names, so the functions
should be renamed...
(totally untested, of course...)
Ciao,
Dscho
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