this serves as a good example of how to reuse code for the XML-RPC
interface. we wrap it for convenience, so that all that needs to be
supplied to the web service method is the message to echo. of course,
other modules can wrap things how they feel the need to, even adding
authentication, i guess, if they wanted
note that it doesn't unregister the XML-RPC method. for starters, i
didn't add an unregister to DrBotIRC, so it can't, and secondly, it
looks like reregistering overwrites the old one. this hasn't been
extensively tested but that's what i'm seeing
this is the first implementer of the new regex handler code, by all
accounts it's working fine, hopefully the underlying code in DrBotIRC
won't need to change as i go forward, but it might
sorry, mikeb. it never really caught on and seemed kind of janky. i
intend to have something that uses docstrings in the future, with the
helping baked into Module or maybe even DrBotIRC
another "this is unnecessary" change, obviously impacting all the
modules that override __init__ as well as the base class. again, they
can use the DrBotIRC instance for anything, which is (with one
exception) only for add/remove_global_handler, which i'm planning on
working my way off of anyway
obviously this means all of the modules changed to accomodate. this is
one of many steps to reduce the number of times we pass connections and
servers and other such info around, when it's mostly unnecessary because
modules have a reference to DrBotIRC
when matching patterns, !rank item++ would not get replied to
since the karma matcher would hit, increment item, and then return
(with no response). now it hits but lets processing continue.
doing !rank item++ of course still increments item, which is probably
not what you want to have happen, but i'm not sure how i feel about
fixing it yet, since even if it's not what you /want/ it's probably
what you /expect/.
when starting another sentence because the main one is too short,
do a bit of work in an attempt to avoid "nick: blah" starts, since
they're fairly common. instead we just ignore nick: and start with
"blah blah"
when starting a second (or Nth) chain because the results so far
are too short, add punctuation to the end of the chain, just to
make things feel a bit more natural
this clarifies a bunch of sections and seems slightly faster
target_word (which would be randomly selected from the input every
time) is replaced with seed_words, a shuffled list from the input.
this is to eliminate accidental reuse of the target word, which
would result in chains like X X X X X X X X X X X X X because
it'd keep targeting X
the rest of this is mostly just debug cleanup, though to simplify
the backwards code it only tries to find one target word
