"What if my file had been corrupted, or truncated and only the first 42 bytes of the new version written thus far, or something like that at the moment when the hang started?"
So there's this new cool thing out there called a "version control system". One of the more popular programs in this category is known as git...check it out sometime, it'll help you relax when programming, knowing that previous versions of your file are only a few keystrokes away. Timothy On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Fluid Dynamics <a2093...@trbvm.com> wrote: > Would somebody mind explaining to me why I just had CCW 0.28.1.STABLE001 > hang with 100% CPU usage when I edited this line: > > := (= v cr)))) > > to this: > > = (= v cr)))) > > and then hit control-S? > > I do not ever want to see anything purportedly "STABLE" do something like > that ever again, and that goes *one trillionfold* if it's IN THE MIDDLE OF > A GODDAMN SAVE. What if my file had been corrupted, or truncated and only > the first 42 bytes of the new version written thus far, or something like > that at the moment when the hang started? Fortunately, in this instance > that had not happened and the file seems to have been saved completely just > *before* the hang. I might not be so lucky next time. That is why this > cannot be permitted to happen again, and why therefore an explanation is > required, and urgently, that I might be perfectly able to avoid triggering > this severe, showstopping, and inexcusable bug again until such time as an > 0.29.1 is published that has it permanently fixed. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
