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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: How bad i are my coding skills? |
| Date | 2019-12-30 14:48 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <qud2n9$7ke$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:46:06 -0800, chad altenburg wrote: > And here is the other winner when dealing with memory leaks and off by > one errors. I use the Google Calendar API to check for the current day. > The days representing like Calendar.SUNDAY, Calendar.MONDAY, … > > The problem is that is if Google changes integer value for something > like Calendar.SUNDAY on the next API update, then some of my code breaks > because the value will be off by at least one. Do you have any ideas how > I can prevent something like this from happening? > DO NOT use you own made-up constants: always use the ones defined by the package provider - in this case Calendar.SUNDAY, etc. If you've 'included' classes that define such constants so you can create class instances, call their methods, etc. then by definition any publicly declared constants they contain are also available for you to use in your code. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org
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How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-26 14:46 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-27 09:28 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-12-27 08:13 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-27 13:11 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-27 13:33 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-27 13:47 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-12-27 11:14 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-27 16:09 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-12-27 23:10 +0000
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-27 16:58 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 01:27 +0100
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-29 19:34 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 05:13 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 05:46 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-12-30 14:48 +0000
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-30 15:11 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 15:55 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-30 18:51 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-31 05:10 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-02 04:20 +0100
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 08:51 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 10:25 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 01:25 +0100
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 05:07 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-02 04:27 +0100
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-02 05:46 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-02 10:43 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 04:54 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 05:00 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-03 11:05 -0500
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 13:54 -0800
Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-05 18:00 +0100
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