From 1b16413e052d129cd0d91e6e8f1c821ce1bb2372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Fincher Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:57:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated, thanks for discovering these typos, Grantbow. --- docs/CAPABILITIES | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/CAPABILITIES b/docs/CAPABILITIES index 94bb1c5a0..c7a6eab1a 100644 --- a/docs/CAPABILITIES +++ b/docs/CAPABILITIES @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Ok, some some explanation of the capabilities system is probably in +Ok, some explanation of the capabilities system is probably in order. With most IRC bots (including the ones I've written myself prior to this one) "what a user can do" is set in one of two ways. On the *really* simple bots, each user has a numeric "level" and commands @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ what a user *cannot* do. It's formed rather simply by adding a dash command, perhaps "calc" or "help", the bot first checks to make sure the user doesn't have the "-calc" or the "-help" capabilities before even considering responding to the user. So commands can be turned on -or off on a *per user* basis, offering finegrained control not often +or off on a *per user* basis, offering fine-grained control not often (if at all!) seen in other bots. But that's not all! The capabilities system also supports *Channel* @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ individual channel! So when a user "foo" sends a command "bar" to the bot on channel "#baz", first the bot checks to see if the user has the anticapability for the command by itself, "-bar". If so, it returns right then and -there, compltely ignoring the fact that the user issued that command +there, completely ignoring the fact that the user issued that command to it. If the user doesn't have that anticapability, then the bot checks to see if the user issued the command over a channel, and if so, checks to see if the user has the antichannelcapability for that @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ and doesn't even think about responding to the bot. If neither of these anticapabilities are present, then the bot just responds to the user like normal. -From a programmatical perspective, capabilties are easy to use and +From a programming perspective, capabilties are easy to use and flexible. Any command can check if a user has any capability, even ones not thought of when the bot was originally written. Commands/Callbacks can add their own capabilities -- it's as easy as @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Another command that requires the trusted capability is Utilties.re, which (due to the regular expression implementation in Python (and any other language that uses NFA regular expressions, like Perl or Ruby or Lua or ...) which can allow a regular expression to take exponential -time to process). Consider what would happen if the someone gave the +time to process). Consider what would happen if someone gave the bot the command 're [format join "" s/./ [dict go] /] [dict go]' Other plugins may require different capabilities; the Factoids plugin