User talk:Gerard Schildberger: Difference between revisions

==Flag as incorrect==

Hi, I think you left a comment ''the above will erroneously return:...'' on a PLI example. Could you change this to use the template incorrect so that PLI users are flagged that the example needs attention. Thanks. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 18:22, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

 

I'm not sure where these summaries end up, as I never had seen any. Is it under the "history" section? I must confess, when I look at some code, I don't care to read about how and/or when changes where made, all I care about is the final product (so to speak) and I'm not particularly interested in the code's change pedigree. But that's me, and I realize that others might find that sort of detail interesting in some way. [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]]

:The summaries do end up on the page history, but they also end up on [[Special:RecentChanges]] and in that page's RSS feed (http://rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom). People like to keep an eye on the recent changes feed. Adding a summary there helps us decide if we need to check on an edit. Also you don't need to add a signature (<nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>) in the summary. It doesn't get evaluated there (as you can probably see in the recent changes feed) and every place that the edit summary shows up already has your username and a timestamp attached to the edit. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 13:35, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

 

== Welcome! ==

 

{{User:Short Circuit/new user greeting}}--[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 12:31, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

 

== Too much text on a page ==

I still haven't found out how to create another (separate) page to hold larger examples. I also have to learn how to link them. [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]]

:If you want to create a new page, simply type the intended title in the search bar on the left (you should probably do this in a new tab/window) and hit "Go". The page it takes you to will have a "create" tab at the top and (I think) a link somewhere in the text of the page that will let you create the page. From there, it's just like editing any other page. If you're creating a separate page for a large example or large output sample, you should keep the title of the new page to the form of "task title/language name" or something similar (if you get it wrong, someone will probably correct it). To link to that page (or any other page on the wiki) from the task page, put the title between two pairs of square brackets: <nowiki>[[Page title here]]</nowiki>. You can read up on all sorts of neat wiki tricks [[Help:Formatting|here]]. Also you can watch the [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes feed]] after you make edits to see what other people do to them (this is where the edit summary comes in handy). --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 15:01, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

 

==Request for dialogue==

 

===My email, and response===

Sorry Paddy; at the point where people start sending open letters, I figure it's time I finally take a look.

 

code is like making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and have become more lax in the addition of REXX statement

comments. [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]]

 

== [[Ackermann function]] ==

Hi,

 

<br><br>That's a pretty ''gihugeic'' number, if not ''gi-normous''.

<br>I don't think it'll fit in the known universe. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 20:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

 

== Regarding Whitespace ==

 

:::::::::: That sounds like a great idea. Just peachy! -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 23:10, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

 

== REXX Long Multiplication ==

Sorry for the re-addition of the comment, but it doesn't really matter that REXX does its multiplication on decimal

strings -- all languages with bignum supprt are doing the same thing too, they just happen to represent the numbers

::This is also not relevant, since the algorithm itself is the same, whether done with decimal digits or another base, whether represented as ASCII numerals or plain numbers, and whether stored in RAM or on printed paper. And since its the same, any of these languages with bignums should be able to have just the quick multiplication as a solution. --[[User:Elibarzilay|Elibarzilay]] ([[User talk:Elibarzilay|talk]]) 07:51, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

 

 

==Discussion moved from task page==

Hi, I just moved your [[Talk:Strip_a_set_of_characters_from_a_string#Task_clarification|discussion]] from the task page. It may need cleanup. We don't normally have such discussions on the task page. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 10:05, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

 

 

: &nbsp; I don't believe in adding versions (of the same language) that do less, ''and'' with restrictions that make the solution incorrect. &nbsp; And so it goes. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 00:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

 

== Ironclad programming language ==

 

:: Yup, I missed that step. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:17, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

 

== Tildes in edit summaries ==

::: Uf-ta. &nbsp; That sure is a bummer when the Google guys may not even acknowledge the problem and/or your reporting of same. &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:25, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

 

Hi, The absence of spaces in the description of the format is ''most significant'' so I had to revert your edit. It is good to tidy things up, but you need to thoroughly understand some of these task descriptions before contemplating changes to ensure any change made does not alter the task. In this case you confused the task description - the text described one thing - your changed example introduced spaces.

 

--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 07:09, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 

 

Hi Gerard - a quick heads up that in some task-spec tidying you have introduced a single white space character at the start and/or end of various &lt;math&gt; tag contents, and it seems to be this that has recently been rendering formulae invisible in OSX browsers. Simply deleting the flanking spaces turns out to restore visibility for browsers on this platform. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 19:20, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

:Without such spaces, Firefox renders the formula, but other browsers don't. Other web pages seem to employ an image file, or a collection of images of symbols to obtain a pleasing result. If I understand matters correctly, the RC system sends (or could send) different .html stuff according to the name of the browser it is feeding, so, I'm well adrift. [[User:Dinosaur|Dinosaur]] ([[User talk:Dinosaur|talk]]) 11:57, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

 

 

Hi Gerard, as it has emerged that the loss of formula visibility has not been platform-specific, and, as you mentioned that you did have one of the majority-type browsers installed (Internet Explorer), as well as one of the minority-type (FireFox), you should be able to fix your edits to restore formula visibility by testing their effects in IE.

:: Previewing '''&lt;math&gt;''' tag contents in Firefox gives no indication of how things really appear on the majority of browsers. If you do edit in Firefox, you '''must always''' also check the real effects of your edit in either Chrome, IE/Edge, Safari, or Opera.

:: Any one of them will do. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 11:24, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

 

== Thanks ==

I've fixed [[Commatizing_numbers#Phix]]. Thanks for the mild slap - it wasn't exactly my best effort, now was it? [[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 22:42, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

 

: I didn't mean my comments to be a slap, just a nudge to fulfill the task's requirements. &nbsp; After any changes/enhancements are done, the "incomplete flag" can be deleted, and all waters are calm. &nbsp; But thank you for completing/fulfilling all of the task's requirements (and having a sense of humor). &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 00:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

 

== RC POP.OUT ==

 

Humm. When a language gains another task's solution, it would be interesting for your schedule to name the task (or tasks), even with a link to the task... One does wonder just which tasks have now been solved. Given that the solutions for a given task are occasionally out of order (or possibly not in the strict character collating order) some caution would be required. [[User:Dinosaur|Dinosaur]] ([[User talk:Dinosaur|talk]]) 10:50, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

 

==KPBF sample==

Gerard: u got it wrong!

 

 

: The &nbsp; ''Kronecker product based fractals'' &nbsp; REXX entry was fixed on June 10^th, 2017. &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 05:10, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

 

== RC POP.OUT, differences ==

You can see where where I made the assumption that &nbsp; <big>'''├á'''</big> &nbsp; was the ASCII character &nbsp; <big>'''á'''</big> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (instead of the correct character &nbsp; <big>'''à'''</big>). &nbsp; I'll will correct the translation within my REXX program and also the program's output. &nbsp; (Pardon my French, but that was a bugger to track down). &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 16:55, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

:I see. If you open a file encoded in UTF-8 in a editor that tries to interpret it as another codepage, you will get that kind of problem. For instance, "Déjà" is printed as "D├⌐j├á vu" in CP437 (a DOS codepage, that you seem to be using here), or "DéjÃ" in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1). That's because UTF-8 encodes Unicode characters as multibyte sequences. It would be possible to read a UTF-8 as binary and do the translation "by hand", but there are programs able to do the translation for you. On Windows, the Notepad++ text editor can do this. [[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 10:18, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

 

== Sort algorithms ==

 

::: Same thing about '''self-referential sequences''' &nbsp; (such as '''look-and-say sequences''', '''four is magic''', '''four is the number of letters in the ...''', and such). &nbsp; I'm not sure what the appropriate terminology is. &nbsp; Generally speaking, I use those category templates to help me find other similar tasks to assist me so I can write new solutions/entries. &nbsp; For some categories, this isn't a problem &nbsp; (for instance, sorting, as most sorting/ordering Rosetta Code tasks usually start with '''sort'''. &nbsp; Same thing with (programing) '''looping'''. &nbsp; But, '''four is magic''', not so much. &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:56, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

 

== Copy-paste error? ==