A little of coordination for Rosettacode

[Jos van Uden]

On 5-3-2013 0:57, Jos van Uden wrote:
> On 4-3-2013 23:04, bearophile wrote:
>> Now and then this thread becomes very useful for some coordination and discussion.
>>
>> Regarding this Task:
>> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Take_notes_on_the_command_line#D
>>
>> Fwend has recently modified it with this note:
>>
>>> the file only needs to be created before append; filename can be written as one word in English, no need for camel case)<
>>
>> Sorry, I didn't know "filename" a single English word :-)
>> http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/business-english/filename?q=filename
>>
>>
>> Regarding the other problem, the last part of the Task says:
>>
>>> If NOTES.TXT doesn't already exist in the current directory then a new NOTES.TXT file should be created.<
>>
>> If no text file exists in the directory and I run the current program with no arguments, it generates no file to me. So I think the current program is wrong. That's why I added a File(fileName, "w");. What do you think?
>
> It depends on how you interpret it. The task describes two actions:
> display and append. The question is: does the last sentence refer to
> the append action or to both display and append. I choose to think it
> refers to the append action because that makes more sense.
>
> As for http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Simple_database
>
> You removed the struct that I used to encapsulate the functions.
>
> Aren't these functions now exposed to other modules? I wanted
> them to only be callable from main. The input validation relies
> on that.
>
> At first I had declared them all private, but then I thought it
> would be convenient to put a struct around them and declare it
> private. Maybe there's a better way.

Another consideration, I just remembered, was that it avoided
creating global variables.