[Remind-Fans] Fun optimization & thanks

[B. William]

Nice one there Tim.
Thanks for sharing

On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 at 09:16, Tim Chase via Remind-fans
<remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
>
> So for the month of November, I wanted to send a note each day to
> someone for whom I'm thankful, and thus cobbled together a quick
> calendar lke
>
>   # thankful.rem
>   REM Nov 1 2023 MSG "Annie"
>   REM Nov 2 2023 MSG "Steve"
>   #...
>   REM Nov 30 2023 MSG "Emily"
>
> However, this was a real pain to modify.  If I wanted to move
> someone to another date, I had to renumber the dates or edit all
> the intervening names.  And it was 30 different date-tests.
>
> Instead I switched to an expression
>
>   REM Nov 2023 MSG [choose($Td \
>     ,"Annie" \
>     ,"Steve" \
>     # ...
>     ,"Emily" \
>     )]
>
> it's (1) much less redundant, (2) a lot faster with only one date
> test, and (3) a lot easier to move people around on the list.
>
> This could also work well for an advent-calendar in December if one
> was interested.
>
> And all that to also say that today I'm thankful that you created
> (and continue to maintain & enhance) remind(1)!
>
> -tim
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