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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: new xlu_disk_parse function

Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: new xlu_disk_parse 
function"):
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> > Hmm, I'm not sure this is nicer than the code it's replacing, it's
> > certainly a lot longer. I don't like the idea of it being full of things
> > comparing for ",w" or ":cdrom" etc, rather than tokenising it fully and
> > evaluating what the tokens are separately.
> 
> I definitely agree.
> Besides when doing refactoring the code produced should be either shorter or
> at least easier to read but this code is neither of them.

I agree that as a rule of thumb better code is shorter.  Unfortunately
string parsing in C is one of those exceptions.

What I was trying to do was to separate out the actual syntax in a way
that is reasonably tractable, and which is amenable to being edited
later without introducing bugs.

So while the current code is longer in this case I think it's clearer.
A good deal of the added code is very simple and straightforward "set
up this regexp engine and check the return value".

It is a shame that the syntax is so abstruse.  We can do better with
the nic parameters which have a better syntax.

Ian.

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