Talk:Semordnilap

Ruby Implementation

Do we really want literal copies of the dict file on the task page? --Rdm 13:58, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

I added a note to the submitters talk page and have chopped most of it from the example for now. --Paddy3118 17:13, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

What sort of a world is it where if someone says your dict looks big an Irish number chops it? From http://rosettacode.org/wiki/User_talk:Nigel_Galloway#Huge_Ruby_example I see I have two choices:

A) modify it to read the dict from a file

B) move it to a sub-page on its own

I choose C. Well B+ really. The + is, it finds a use for history, which I see relied on too often.--Nigel Galloway 11:53, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Does this mean you like pages being really big and slow to load (and perhaps enough to crash some phone browsers)? If so, perhaps we could all include a copy of that same dictionary in each implementation on the task page? As an upper bound (99 bottles of beer has what... 200 implementations?) the task page probably would not get too much bigger than 40 megabytes...

That said, you also left out choices D), E) and F) (fetch dict from the url every time the code runs, or represent dict as a compressed blog, or do not bother implementing the task and let someone else do it). And, if we put some thought into it, we could probably come up with a G), H) or I) also. Maybe H) can be your "look up the big version in history"? --Rdm 12:28, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Nigel, as I tried to explain, we try not to have overly large examples, and if you look around, those measures I outlined are used by others when they have large examples to post or others may create sub-pages for them without the snide remarks.

There are other examples and tasks that use the dictionary and yours is the first example that chose to stick the whole dictionary in the source code. The program you wrote may work, but that is not the only consideration for its inclusion, we also like to have a main task page that doesn't put undue load on browsers and ~200K of source I thought was too much. (The line length was excessive too). --Paddy3118 16:47, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

P.S. If you think the site makes the rules up as it goes along, then in essence you are correct. The users are encouraged and empowered to make RC 'better'. We may struggle at times, but I think Rdm and I made a reasonable request, and made an appropriate change. --Paddy3118 16:47, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Nigel, relying on page history that way slams my server. Seriously. Don't do that. MediaWiki only stores the most recent revision verbatim, and diffs from one revision to the next. In order to show a page fifteen revisions old, the server has to apply fourteen diffs. As for the rest of it, I recommend modifying the task to read from a dictionary file. Most non-Windows systems have a words file handy, and a link can be provided to the remainder. --Michael Mol 17:10, 12 September 2012 (UTC)