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Re: [lmi] Group premium quotes
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Greg Chicares |
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Re: [lmi] Group premium quotes |
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Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:48:51 +0000 |
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On 2015-08-14 00:12, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:58:50 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> GC> On 2015-07-17 02:25, Greg Chicares wrote:
[...]
> GC> double InitModalPrem00; // without riders
> GC> double InitModalPrem01; // with WP only
> GC> double InitModalPrem10; // with ADB only
> GC> double InitModalPrem11; // with ADB and WP
> GC> have been added to class LedgerInvariant on 20150813T0039Z.
>
> Thank you, I've updated the code to use them, both for the column values
> and for the totals. One small problem I have now is that the value of these
> fields seems to vary significantly among the different cells of the same
> census and in the example I'm using they have a different number of digits,
> making the centered numbers look ugly (IMHO). I had chosen to center them
> because the prototype did so, but I wonder if I should switch to right
> aligning them instead?
Let's just keep following the prototype. (It's not to my taste, either.)
> GC> Key:
> GC> WP = "waiver of premium"
> GC> ADB = "accidental death benefit"
>
> Thank you for the ADB explanation, I was wondering why using Android debug
> bridge increased the premium so much...
White Phosphorus.
> GC> I went all cryptic on the names out of fear that the rider combinations
> GC> might expand in future years, and I don't want names like
> GC>
> InitialModalPremium_WithWaiver_WithoutAccidentalDeathBenefit_WithSpouseRider_WithoutChildrenRider_WithGuaranteedInsurabilityOption_WithoutTermRider
> GC> when
> GC> InitModalPrem101010
> GC> might reasonably be considered no less readable.
>
> I'm sorry but I disagree. The current name choices seem to be really
> unfortunate to me, it will be all but impossible to notice using a wrong
> field.
Any mixup will be found immediately in testing, most likely before
it even gets committed.
> I'd definitely prefer to use symbolic names if it's not too late to
> change your mind.
Changing it now would affect all the 1201 regression-test files that I
just archived, so, sorry, that train has already left the station.