One thing that is still open after Dr.EM_Chicago’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
wendy_avl said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
wendy_avl said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
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Shop Reference Standardswendy_avl said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.