From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2007-12-15T02:37:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Programmer Ping-Pong (#150) On 12/14/07, Phrogz wrote: > On Dec 14, 8:30 am, John Joyce > wrote: > > question about this quiz: > > How do you prevent or at least reign in the splintering/forking of > > code and likely duplication of efforts here? > > As with so many quizzes, I'm going to sit and watch the ping pong > > battle royale. I don't know much about binary trees or other such > > data structures... > > Obviously we need to create a tree simply to track to the bifurcating > responses :) I'm afraid that mail is going to be a terrible way to do this. Something like subversion would work much better. Your commit would either succeed or you'd know that you had to reset and respond to someone who beat you to it instead. And gmails hide quoted text is making it almost impossible for me to follow this already. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/