Re: "family name, personal name" in devel/people

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:08:38AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > --- people.pl.orig	Thu Jan 30 08:06:12 2003
> > +++ people.pl	Thu Jan 30 07:59:51 2003
> > @@ -172,9 +172,6 @@
> >  		elsif ($maintainer =~ /Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a\s+<(.+)>/o) {
> >  			$lastname = 'Fernandez-Sanguino Pe&ntilde;a'; $firstname = 'Javier'; $email = $1;
> >  		}
> > -		elsif ($maintainer =~ /KELEMEN Peter <(.+)>/io) {
> > -			$lastname = 'Kelemen'; $firstname = 'Peter'; $email = $1;
> > -		}
> >  		elsif ($maintainer =~ /J\.H\.M\.? Dassen \(Ray\) <(.+)>/o) {
> >  			$lastname = 'Dassen'; $firstname = 'Ray J.H.M.'; $email = $1;
> >  		}
> > @@ -232,66 +229,18 @@
> ....
> 
> Matt, this should fine but is this really what you want to do.  If we
> use a rule "all caps word makes surname", may be this patch is shorter.
> 
> Just wondering .... I thought programming is all about "generalization"
> of phenomena into a simpler rules....

Err... the last chunk of his patch implemented the all-caps-means-surname,
so he also added chunks to remove manual overrides for that.

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