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No, there is a use to showing the checksum in the returned string.
If I get five results, 4 of which have a checksum of 0x2343245, and another which has a checksum of 0x00003, then I can guess which is a forgery.
Sure, they've put their ad into my search, but at least I won't be accidentally downlaoding their commercial jingle.
Well, since this thread is about Hugo, a program for writing Interactive Fiction (text adventures, to the rest of you), I don't think you can get too far from the CLI. Of course, Hugo (as well as TADS and Inform, it's competitors) allows both graphics and sound, so a gui is nice too. Maybe it's time to compromise?
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No, there is a use to showing the checksum in the returned string.
If I get five results, 4 of which have a checksum of 0x2343245, and another which has a checksum of 0x00003, then I can guess which is a forgery.
Sure, they've put their ad into my search, but at least I won't be accidentally downlaoding their commercial jingle.
Well, since this thread is about Hugo, a program
for writing Interactive Fiction (text adventures,
to the rest of you), I don't think you can get too
far from the CLI. Of course, Hugo (as well as
TADS and Inform, it's competitors) allows both
graphics and sound, so a gui is nice too. Maybe
it's time to compromise?