Precise language
Friday, April 3rd, 2009From a discussion in the comments at TSO’s place:
>Reminds me of my System/360 days when we had to suggest to the programmers that rather than ask the operator at the console to type “1 for Yes, 2 for No”, the program should request “Y for Yes, N for No”.
>And what’s wrong with “1″ for Yes and “2″ for No exactly?
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>One for yes and two for no is great if you have at least one position to the right of the decimal point.
>”And what’s wrong with ‘1′ for Yes and ‘2′ for No exactly?” 1thing.







































