Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Feature Request: enhanced .mtn-ignore

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On 8/5/06, Steven E. Harris <address@hidden> wrote:
> Chad Walstrom <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > function ignore_file(name)
> >       if (string.find(name, "%.pyc$")) then return true end
> >       if (string.find(name, "%.pyo$")) then return true end
>
> Wow, that is really crying out for a macro, or a declarative
> specification. It's just a giant short-circuiting OR form.¹

    Something like this could be cleaner:

local ignore_patterns = {
  "%.pyc$", "%.pyo$", etc.
}

for _, pat in ipairs(ignore_patterns) do
    if string.find(name, pat) then return true end
end

--
-alex
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