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Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:00:02 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, David Schilling writes:
[...] Virtually all sets have 4 digit numbers.
(Once this became a feature on LUGNET, people could add zeros to non-4 digit
set numbers so that this feature would work with them too.)

Actually, adding leading zeros would be worse.  There are many cases of sets
with the same integer number but with different leading-zero number-names.
For example, there are at least two different sets numbered "20" and at least
one set numbered "020".  Another example:  There is a set "001" and several
sets numbered "1".

A minor point, I admin, but since LEGO has used leading zeros before, the
set numbers aren't actually integers but strings.  (There's even a set with
an "A" on the end, and other oddities.)

--Todd



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  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) ^^^^^ I mean: "admit" Sometimes I really hate touch-typing finger-memory! I had just typed lugnet.admin.database... :-/ --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.database)
  Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
 
(...) I didn't know that. But the pause database already comes up with a list of sets when there's more than one. Might not an improvement to the database be to add sets with letters or leading zeros to the list? You can pick out which one you (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.database)

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