Same file?

[Richard Gaskin]

Andre wrote:

> put the md5digest of url ("binfile:" & path1) into tMD5file1
> put the md5digest of url ("binfile:" & path2) into tMD5file2
> if tMD5file1 is tMD5file2 then
>   return true
> else
>   return false
> end if

Andre, you've been programming too deeply for too long. :)

MD5digest is great for storing small signatures of large files, but 
since the function reads the full file contents it can simply use:

   if url ("binfile:"& path1) is url ("binfile:"& path2) then
   ...

You're not alone:  this morning I caught myself writing 20 beautifully 
complex lines to do something that later occurred to me could be done in 
a single line that was much easier to read. :)

The seductive beauty of RevTalk....

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