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Lost in translation (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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Just had some requirements through for a query that a customer has specified.

“Set the value to 1 if the Outcome is not Complete or Cancelled or NULL”

This could be variously interpreted as:

“if the Outcome is NOT Complete and NOT Cancelled and NOT NULL”

Or “if the Outcome is NOT Complete, and NOT Cancelled, or IS NULL”

Or perhaps even “if the Outcome is NOT ‘Complete or Cancelled’ or IS NULL”

Obviously I’ll go back to them for clarity, but it’s a wonder why so often “bugs” arise based on interpretation of specifications.

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[–] LaggyKar 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

What's the difference between case 2 and 3? Those look the same to me. The three cases look like:

¬complete ∧ ¬cancelled ∧ ¬null
(¬complete ∧ ¬cancelled) ∨ null
¬(complete ∨ cancelled) ∨ null

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Case 3 is one separate text string containing the words ‘Complete or Cancelled’ (hence the quotes).

[–] LaggyKar 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, I thought that was just a grouping