I am working almost daily with incomplete specifications, and can usually work my way around that ..., but that is also getting sometimes on my nerves, because there are cases where I just do not know well enough the functional context. So, when I don't know the context well enough, ... I am often preferring to ... say: "Tell me exactly what you want it to do, and I'll try to do it for you. But don't expect me to take the decisions for you ..., because I don't want you to then reject these decisions and tell me it is a development bug ...

Yea and amen, brother! And in addition to people who expect you to guess what they want and then take responsibility upon yourself when you guess wrong, there are those who consider each scrap of specification information to be a state secret even though you're both employed by the same company and may even be working in the same department.

In reply to Re^6: Need to sort and data structure based on values inside arrayrefs. by AnomalousMonk
in thread Need to sort and data structure based on values inside arrayrefs. by shekarkcb

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