Re: Cheap Electronics (was Re: Worldcon news)

In article <ed43a324-6d9d-44f5-a8c5-1853ba46c2d7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
cryptoguy <treifamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 27, 9:45 pm, Kevin J. Maroney <k...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:21:57 +0000 (UTC), se...@xxxxxxxxx (Seth)
wrote:
In article <c2ibi59a472pt5spp3rljsf8bbmjfcs...@xxxxxxx>,
David Loewe, Jr. <dlo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:56:12 +0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
<k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And if you want to move only those files whose names contain a W
followed by a two-digit even number but do not contain an N or an
E anywhere, and were not created on a Tuesday?

Why?

I have a system that generates reports with a naming convention
(because it generates a lot of them).  W is a particular client; even
number reports are done at the close (odd at the open).  The types of
reports for that client are A, N, E, and R.  Reports are generated two
days in arrears (time to clean the incoming data), and the client is
closed Sunday.  He asked me for the type A and R reports done at the
close for each day he was open last year.

Why would your system generate an end-of-day report for a client on a
day the client wasn't active? That's the only part of the query that's
at all challenging.

The other question is, why accept such an obtuse naming convention?
Can't you fix it?

Of course I could, but that would require editing a whole lot of
programs that are running fine right now to generate and look for the
new names, and missing something would make the overall system break.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Seth

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