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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Feedback from the consumer end of the producer-consumer link :-) |
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> The motivation is fine and well, it didn't quite work out, we call |
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> this a "bug". |
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> The only real mistake was trying to slipstream it in without |
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> notification or warning. devs all agree we should never do this, but |
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> it is so ... tempting. |
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> I've made the same mistake myself many many times, and each time it |
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> came back and bit me hard :-) |
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What I like is the speed it got corrected. People that don't sync often |
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most likely didn't even know it ever changed. |
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Another like, a dev that at least reads some of this stuff on -user. |
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It's a good way to get feedback. If you change something and it doesn't |
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get mentioned, most likely all is well. If it does get mentioned, may |
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want to rethink the change. |
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Lessons learned the hard way are the ones we remember the longest. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |