global replace
Nov. 5th, 2004 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ymsСкачал осликом одну программистскую книжку (книжка так себе), а там примеры разбавлены байками. Например, вот такая:
A church had just bought its first computer, and the staff was learning how to use it. The church secretary decided to set up a form letter to be used in a funeral service. Where the person's name was to be she put in the word "<name>". When a funeral occurred she would change this word to the actual name of the departed.
One day, there were two funerals, first for a lady named Mary, then later one for someone named Edna. So the secretary used global replace to change "<name>" to "Mary". So far so good. Next she generated the service for the second funeral by changing the word "Mary" to "Edna". That was a mistake.
Imagine the Minister's surprise when he started reading the part containing the Apostles' Creed and saw, "Born of the Virgin Edna."
A church had just bought its first computer, and the staff was learning how to use it. The church secretary decided to set up a form letter to be used in a funeral service. Where the person's name was to be she put in the word "<name>". When a funeral occurred she would change this word to the actual name of the departed.
One day, there were two funerals, first for a lady named Mary, then later one for someone named Edna. So the secretary used global replace to change "<name>" to "Mary". So far so good. Next she generated the service for the second funeral by changing the word "Mary" to "Edna". That was a mistake.
Imagine the Minister's surprise when he started reading the part containing the Apostles' Creed and saw, "Born of the Virgin Edna."
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Date: 2004-11-05 10:52 am (UTC)