Feeding different parameters to a variable

• ChrisM@Work

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  August 20, 2010 at 3:13 am

  #1209537

  drew.allen (8/19/2010)

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  Chris Morris-439714 (8/18/2010)

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  WHERE PartitionSize IN (1, Seq*2, Seq*2-1) -- < changed 3rd param here

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  ChrisM

  This makes it seem like 1 is a special case when it's actually an exemplar of Seq*2-1. Including unnecessary elements makes your code harder to understand. Admittedly, it doesn't make that much difference in this case.

  Drew

  Hi Drew

  Thanks for pointing this out, and I entirely agree with your comments. I'd like to say it was deliberate, to catch PartitionSize = 1 with the least effort - which would hold water too - but it wasn't, it was simply scaffolding left over from testing values of partitionsize and seq to capture the correct values.

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  ChrisM

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