spam,Re: Testing reports

[Colin Scott]

> I would argue that case inversion like this doesn't necessarily 
> require a good reason, but that's a minor detail.

Are you saying that you are happy for the output to change without that change being the planned result of a deliberate, targetted, action?  I would be *very* unhappy were any program of mine to behave that way!

Colin

-------- Original Message --------

*Subject:* spam,Re: Testing reports
*From:* Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
*To:* gnucash at double-bars.net
*CC:* jralls at ceridwen.us, yawar.amin at gmail.com, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
*Date:* Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:48:31 -0400

"Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:

> Sorry for the delay - I've been away.
>
>> Define "html text"?  For example, would you consider this:
>> 
>>   <A HREF="foo">foo</A>
>> 
>> and this:
>> 
>>   <a href="foo">foo</a>
>
> For the purposes of the exercise in hand, I would consider them to be
> different.  Working out whether the difference is significant is not
> something I would want to leave to a robot - not because it isn't
> perfectly possible to do robotically, but because it simply isn't
> worth devoting that much time and effort to inventing a robot that
> will do it reliably.  After all, even such an apparently minor change
> as a case inversion shouldn't be made without a damn' good reason!

I would argue that case inversion like this doesn't necessarily require
a good reason, but that's a minor detail.

>>  What about:
>>   <a href="foo">foo</a>    and    <a href="bar">foo</a>
>> ?
>
> Different under *any* circumstances!  :-)

Yes, I expected this answer, and I said so in my message :)
But you didn't respond to my third example:

>    Similarly, I would want these two to result in a "match":
>
>   <p>This is a paragraph</p>
>
> and
>
>   <p>This
>   is
>   a parahraph</p>

What would do here?

> -derek

-derek

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