[Ironruby-core] "Native" Zlib Implementation Patch

[Michael Letterle]

The rubinius specs for Zlib are... wanting.  Though there are some.
Are the rubinius specs used as is?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, John Lam (IRONRUBY)
<jflam at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Michael Letterle:
>
>  > "Native" Zlib Implementation Patch
>
>  Thanks for sending this in!
>
>  FYI - a few quick pointers about your contribution. No need to take any action since I've fixed most of them on my machine already.
>
>  1. Bangs
>
>  Please do your best to incorporate the bangs in your contributions. The bangs indicate a non-nullable reference type. I find that it's best if you create a VS macro to insert them - I bind this macro to the CTRL-! key:
>
>  Sub InsertBang()
>     DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "/*!*/"
>  End Sub
>
>  This helps to reinforce in your mind (and in the mind of the code reviewer) whether a given reference type is non-nullable or not. This will also greatly help us out when we start running spec# for real across our codebase to look for violations of this contract.
>
>  Generally you'll find that any time you get a CodeContext from us it's guaranteed to not be null, which means that you don't have to do a null check. The converse is also true - if you have a nullable reference type, you'll need to validate it with one of the helpers in our Microsoft.Scripting.ContractUtils class.
>
>  2. General formatting issues
>
>  Please do try and stick with .NET naming conventions if possible when porting code from Java etc. I realize that it does take time to do this, and thanks, but it's either you do it or I have to :) Not a big deal since I can just do a CTRL-K CTRL-F on your code, but it would rock if you could format along the same lines as the rest of the code.
>
>  3. Testing / coverage
>
>  If possible please let us know how many specs from the spec suite your code passes etc. That would help us determine how much to look into the codebase itself.
>
>  Thanks,
>  -John
>
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