Re:Time to retire the CSV?
by shadowwolf007 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:12PM
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Honestly with the schema thing I'd probably be fine with either/or!
A checksum would be crude and user-hostile, only being able to say "you did it wrong" but not really good at tell you what it means to do it right.
If I understand the concepts correctly then it seems like a shared ontology could potentially solve the problem in a non-hostile way.
Plus, it makes me happy because I feel like types are a real-world problem, so it is always nice if the type system could enforce that real-world-ness and all the messiness that comes along for the ride.
A checksum would be crude and user-hostile, only being able to say "you did it wrong" but not really good at tell you what it means to do it right.
If I understand the concepts correctly then it seems like a shared ontology could potentially solve the problem in a non-hostile way.
Plus, it makes me happy because I feel like types are a real-world problem, so it is always nice if the type system could enforce that real-world-ness and all the messiness that comes along for the ride.