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Re: Buffered reading seems to corrupt data stream

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Peter Duniho wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> Just this once the question was answerable (and answered, elsethread) without the SSCCE [...]
> 
> By that standard, _all_ questions are answerable without an SSCCE.  A 
> person attempting an answer can always make a guess, and that guess 
> always has a non-zero probability of being correct.

You're preaching to the choir!

I did point out that the omission only worked "just this once", not recommend it.

And as you point out, the score is less than one for one.

> It was not possible from the code posted to _know_ that the OP was 
> actually recreating the BufferedInputStream anew each time.  One could 
> certainly guess, and of course Ronny did (and did so correctly, as it 
> turns out).
> 
> But without an SSCCE, we know that the code posted deviates from the 
> _actual_ code in some way, and it could just as easily have been that 
> part of the deviation included an oversimplification of how 
> BufferedInputStream was used.
> 
> Other guesses were made as well (i.e. my own), based on the same 
> incomplete information, and they were wrong.  The guess that 
> BufferedInputStream was being recreated each time could have been wrong 
> too, since the code posted was obviously not really the code the OP was 
> using.
> 
> That guess turned out to be right, and I give all credit to Ronny for 
> taking the code at face value and making the guess he did.  He succeeded 
> where at least some of the rest of us failed.  But there was no 
> assurance at all that would have happened (*)
> 
> An SSCCE isn't just a good idea; it's a practical requirement.

Amen, brother!

-- 
Lew

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    Re: Buffered reading seems to corrupt data stream Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-04 08:48 -0700
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