On 18Jan2016 20:41, Martin A. Brown <mar...@linux-ip.net> wrote:
Yes and so have I. Maybe twice in 30 years of programming. [...]
I may have done it a little more than that; I agree it is very
rare. I may be biased because I was debugging exactly this last
week. (Which itself is an argument against mixed rerad/write with
one file - it was all my own code and I spent over a day chasing
this because I was looking in the wrong spot).
Oh yes. Ooof. Today's decisions are tomorrow's albatross.
Actually I have good reason to mix these in this instance, and now that it is
debugged it is reliable and more efficient to boot.
[...]
Tip for new players: if you do any .write()s, remember to do a
.flush() before doing a seek or a read
That's exactly my point. There are so many things you have to do
extra when working in mixed mode. Too easy to treat things like
normal mode files and get it wrong. Experts can do it and make it
work, but mostly it's just not needed.
Yes. You're write - for simplicity and reliability two distinct
open file instances are much easier.
Yes, he's write [sic]. He writes a bunch! ;)
Alas, I have a tendency to substitute homophones, or near homophones, when
typing in a hurry. You'll see this in a bunch of my messages. More annoyingly,
some are only visible when I reread a posted message instead of when I was
proofreading prior to send.
[Homonyms mess me up when I'm typing, all sew.]
Homonyms too.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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