Arrghhh!
Laziness is all well and good, but when you start to
change the outside world in order to make your code
simpler, then you're heading for problems. Forcing users
to undestand 'R' to mean 'Th' is a case in point.
The point of programming is to encapsulate the complexity
in our own code (where we know(?) that we can handle it),
rather than downloading it on users. That way one person
(the coder) is inconvenienced, rather than the entire
user community.
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I thought it was pretty clear that the author was writing
this just for himself. As he's the only user, why not
change his perspective? Like I said, apply the principle
of laziness in the most efficient manner. :grin:
As for forcing users to use R to stand for Thursday,
schools (well, tertiary, not secondary) across the country
do it already. It's not exactly a sudden change. It
generates a more consistent user interface (all days are
one char). If you want to use multiple-char days, why
not just go to all 2-char or all 3char?
On a grand scale, putting the complexity into the program
rather than in the interface is a good thing (from a user
persective, at least). Yet would you truly paint all
problems with the same brush?
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I had indeed thought of going to the single letter 'R' to represent thursday but decided that I'd rather spend the time and bend the program to my will instead of rethinking my input model to make programming easier. especially since it's not an important project and I'm just doing it for myself.
but most of all I didn't do that because I don't like the letter r very much!
-Etan
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