Re: Time to ditch "SSCCE"?


Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
> SCE - Short Compilable Example
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What about Short And Compilable code. SACC. Pronounced "sec" as in
trigonometry.


Thomas Weidenfeller said :
"You are absolutely right Roedy. I stayed a way from the
comp.lang.java.*
groups for some weeks, and started to read them again today. Just after

a few minutes of reading I again started to think that the time is
probably not worth it. "


You have to ignore old posts. Sometimes, I have a weeks backlog of
posts to read, and I have to skip most of them. Or I open the post and
read it if it has an informative subject line.

Oliver Wong said :
"I'm gonna some pedantic nitpicking here. Don't take it personally. "

No I wont. And what you say is correct. If SSCCE means that you can
change names, or shorten it, but contains the main point. For example,
if I am having a problem with inheritance, I can use class names like
SuperClass and SubClass, instead of OrderXmlParser and
DeletionOrderXmlParser. Normally I try to post as much code as possible
with log messages.
Like if there is some problem why a method is returning null, it is
possible to just post the method , without the rest of code, and also
include the log messages in the post.

Guess we just have to strike the right balance, dont post too much
redundant code, or too less.

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