Re: [Gnuplot-info] array (ab)use case

[Jeremy N. - ml g. <jn....@wi...>]

On 2022-07-11 09:40, Norwid Behrnd via gnuplot-info wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> 
>> If someone tries to read through your older posts following the
>> successive changes you made to your code, they cannot see all
>> the different pictures that you made, because each newer one
>> overwrote the older ones.

> @Jeremy
> My interpretation of you reply is you recommend snippets of code
> shared here should be both complete as in «all the relevant
> instructions to demonstrate the issue» .and. self sufficient for
> a test run, i.e. to include a minimal set of data to process.  In
> other words, to include gnuplot's datablocks (`$data`) as in e.g.,
> 
> ```gnuplot script
> $data << EOD ...


Yes!

I presume that gnuplot's output isn't meant to vary much across
different OSes, but presumably there can be platform differences
not least in the fonts available.  So although in theory anyone
can test someone-else's code on their own system, it might not
follow that weird results that one person gets will also happen
for everyone else.

That's why I thought that if URLs are given to an OP's image(s)
it would be better if different images had different URLs.

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Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own