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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: How bad i are my coding skills? |
| Date | 2019-12-30 15:55 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 12/30/2019 3:11 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/30/2019 8:46 AM, 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?
>
> Don't worry about it.
>
> Calendar.Xxxday are static final fields. And due to how they are
> treated in Java, then there is no way Oracle/JCP will ever change the
> values.
... and even if they did, a simple recompile would fix it without
even one character's worth of changes to the source. (Provided you've
followed Martin Gregorie's advice, of course.)
--
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
Three hundred eighty-seven days to go.
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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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