Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

zoara <me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > zoara <me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > > Pd <peterd.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > zoara <me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > A couple of days ago, someone at work asked me whether I could
> > > > > write something that incremented values in base 31. Even after
he
> > > > > explained, I still couldn't work out why he chose such an
> > > > > arbitrary base.
> > > > 
> > > > Maximum number of days in a month?
> > > 
> > > No. He'd worked out some way of (apparently) getting the shortest
> > > possible unique identifier for a given ticket[1]. I'm not sure how
base
> > > 31 was going to create shorter identifiers than, say, using all the
> > > alphanumerics, ie base 36.
> > > 
> > > But, as I said, he's a dork.
> > 
> > Tell him he's technically wrong, and tell him that your easier
solution
> > is technically better bearing in mind his needs.  And then do it the
> > easy way.
> 
> I've tried that.

Big stick?  Slip him some drugs to sap his will?  Batter him
unconscious, stuff him in a sack, and dump him in a river?  (it'd be a
kindness, I'm sure).

> > > Worst of it is, I've got to do this using a proprietary scripting
> > > language that is little more advanced than BASIC - it only has about
> > > thirty-odd functions, and it's not possible write your own. 
> > 
> > I'd call that less advanced than Basic.
> 
> It's mor advanced in other ways.

Righto - but not being able to write your own functions?  Decent Basics
let you do that.  Even gosubs sort of count in that line.

Rowland.

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