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Re: Help: Re: review: LEGO '99
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.database
Date: 
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:05:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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
                   ^^^^^

I mean:  "admit"

Sometimes I really hate touch-typing finger-memory!  I had just typed
lugnet.admin.database...  :-/

--Todd


> 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
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.database)

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