On 30Apr2019 11:24, DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote:
On 30/04/19 8:17 AM, MRAB wrote:
Why would generation numbers result in a 'ripple' of renaming?
You're assuming that "output.rpt.1" comes after "output.rpt.2", but
it could just as well come before (generation 1 precedes generation
2, etc.). You're just left with the exception of the unnumbered
"output.rpt" being the latest.
I was!
However, that's the way statisticians and mathematicians think, and
thus expressed themselves (I 'swapped' the minus-sign for a fileNM
separator):
(current) version version.rpt
-1 version version.rpt.1
-2 version version.rpt.2
etc
For a counter example, I'm pretty sure the VMS built in file versioning
went on the scheme MRAB described: rewriting version.rpt caused the old
version to become "version.rpt;n" where n counted up from 1.
Of course this is an arbitrary convention.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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