OpenEuphoria

Re: RedyCode 0.9.3

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jul 12, 2016
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I respectivefully disagree. euphoric was merely stating what euphoric believed to be a potential optimization (akin to saying 'well, to save on memory you can store the year as only two digits instead of four!'). Mike777b had an excellent response which explained why it was in fact useful - and this was, at least to me, a non-obvious answer that was worth having spelled out.

It did not. euphoric's alternative naming was, at least to me, obvious - ProjectName.exw.YYMMDDHHMMSS.bkp where YYMMDDHHMMSS obviously stands for Year Month Day Hour Minute Second

Even if it had lacked this, I still feel that pointing out a potential optimization is a useful form of good, friendly, constructive criticism and feedback.

That said, it's certainly possible that euphoric could have worded his post a little better. Maybe something along the lines of "Good idea on the format, but are you sure you need the sequence number? It seems to me that unless you are saving it more than once a second you don't really need that part, and so you can save on code complexity by not having to maintain the sequence number handling code..."

But hey, we're all geeks and nerds, not professional PR people. Some allowance must be made for nerdiness.

I feel that your comment here is borderline, but it comes close to violating the CodeOfConduct - it looks to me as if this is being less than respectful, and not assuming good faith on the part of euphoric's suggestion.

From my point of view, your post is of the kind that is more likely to discourage, rather than euphoric's.

I suppose, though, that some allowance must be made here for nerdiness.