test please delete

[NickFitz]

Deliveroo? <or local equivalent>?

Every kind of takeaway food place is within three minutes walk - it's quicker to go there than get it delivered

[BrilloPad]

Very mellow old chap, - and you???

3 kids - I am never mellow!

However I am as contented as I can be.....

[BrilloPad]

I really hate the way comparison operators in different languages can make life hard.

The other day in perl a colleague introduced a bug. We store file sizes in sybase as an int(2 GB). It was defined about 20 years ago. One file we are sent contains full history rather than changes. On Wednesday it went over 2GB. BANG!

So a colleague said: -
if $filesize gt 2147483647
{
$filesize = 2147483647
}
Then call sp.

Suddenly ALL file sizes are 2147483647

For strings "gt" works. For int you have to use ">" !!!!!!

How f**king stupid is that? What m0r0n designs things that way?

I suppose if it was easy everyone would be doing it......

[BrilloPad]

My favourite was a system in JAVA/C++.

Someone coded (if $a == $b). Of course in JAVA you have to use $a.equals($b).

It worked in dev as someone overrode string == to do .equals().

However that was not turned on in prod.

[BrilloPad]

My favourite was a system in JAVA/C++.

Someone coded (if $a == $b). Of course in JAVA you have to use $a.equals($b).

It worked in dev as someone overrode string == to do .equals().

However that was not turned on in prod.

The chap who coded that is now FILTH. Failed In London Try Hongkong.

All Bar One at the wharf. Minor argument. He bottled someone! Criminal conviction.....

[BrilloPad]

I think my posts are too long.

[NickFitz]

In the Chinese

[BrilloPad]

The ideal tpd post should take 30 seconds to compose - to agree with the old minimum time between posts.

[BR14]

I think my posts are too long.

In the Chinese

I might have understood them in Chinese

Don't get these newfangled languages.

I'll stick to HLASM and REXX i think

[SueEllen]

I might have understood them in Chinese

Don't get these newfangled languages.

I'll stick to HLASM and REXX i think

Never heard of them.