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Re: A question about a few variables in a class

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On 8/14/2011 4:23 PM, Chad wrote:
> On Aug 13, 5:49 pm, Eric Sosman<esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>  wrote:
>> On 8/13/2011 1:30 PM, Chad wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 6, 4:56 am, Eric Sosman<esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>    wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>        We don't actually know what Rectangle is because there are no
>>>> import statements to tell us what package it's in.[...]
>>
>>       Just out of curiosity, what *is* the `Rectangle' you used?
>
> Below is all 5 million lines of code from the book....
>[...]
> //Rectangle1 isn't a typo
> public class Rectangle1 extends GeometricObject1 {

     Not a typo, fine.  Also still not `Rectangle' ...

     Chad, if you ever expect to make any progress in programming
you will have to learn a few hard truths about exactness.  First, of
course, is that the computer will do exactly what you tell it to --
and the whole huge activity called "debugging" amounts to exploring
the gap between what was said and what was meant.  That being the
case, it is counterproductive in the extreme to widen the gap
gratuitously, as you have done in this thread by persisting in
sloppiness.  You are just making things harder, unnecessarily harder,
and people may tire of working unnecessarily hard to help you.

     By the way, the status of the thread's question is just as it
was nine days ago: "Insufficient information to support an answer."
Not much progress for nine days, is it?

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-05 14:31 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-05 14:46 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-06 07:56 -0400
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 10:30 -0700
      Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-13 20:49 -0400
        Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 13:23 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-14 13:52 -0700
            Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 22:50 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 18:04 -0400
            Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 17:09 -0700
              Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 21:57 -0400
              Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 22:55 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 18:01 -0400
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-06 22:58 -0700
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-07 05:28 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-10 09:14 -0700
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 10:27 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-14 18:36 -0700

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