[chuck-users] chuck-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 1

[Les Hall]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:00 PM, chuck-users-request at lists.cs.princeton.edu 
wrote:

>
> Fellow ChucKists,
>
> The .quine() member function of the Shred object (which returns the
> code of the shred in question as a string) doesn't correctly include
> comments for sporked functions.
>
> To demonstrate, this works;
> ===========================
> //this is a comment
> <<<me.quine( )>>>;
> =======================
>
> Yet this;
>
> =====================
> fun void foo()
> 	{
> 	//this is a comment
> 	second => now;
> 	me.quine();
> 	}
>
> spork ~ foo();
> hour => now;
> ===================
>
> only prints this (notice the removed comment);
>
> [chuck](VM): sporking incoming shred: 1 (unnamed1)...
> "second => now;
> me.quine();" : (string)
>
> This is of course quite inconvenient.
>
> Yours,
> Kas.
>

Kas,

I am deeply concerned about the .quine() bug.  Upon further testing, it 
appears to ignore every other comment yet print the others.  Surely we 
must address this blatant problem somehow.

Les