Re: [Gaim-devel] To eager smiley replacement

[Stephen E. <spe...@gm...>]

On 4/2/07, Evan Schoenberg <ev...@dr...> wrote:
>
>
> The official client is silly to do so; it clearly isn't supposed to be
> an emoticon :)

That's clear for us, because we can understand the context of the
message. What is silly, in my opinion, is the choice of characters.

>
> It may not make sense for your particular conversation, but then more
>
> rules would be required to decide if a smiley should be displayed or
>
>
> not. What is your suggestion? More rules?

>  'Course, this from the crazy guy
> who has no major problem with a very seriously overengineered solution to
> the problem:
> http://trac.adiumx.com/browser/trunk/Source/AIEmoticonController.m#L239
>
Holy ****. What's next, writing a grammar and using Lex / Yacc? :P

Well, from the code comments:

                     /* We want to show this emoticon if there is:
*              It begins or ends the string
*              It is bordered by spaces or line breaks or quotes on both sides
*              It is bordered by a period on the left and a space or
line break or quote the right
*              It is bordered by emoticons on both sides or by an
emoticon on the left and a period, space, or line break on the right
*/

Ignoring the complexity for something as silly as an emoticon, it
seems adequate.


-- 

Stephen


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