Re^3: Optional vote explanation box as an anonymous message sender.

Heh heh ... I get such a kick out of that list each time I read it :)

One of my favorites is:

#11943 Ah yes, and you are the first person to have noticed this bug since 1987. Sure.

It reminds me of a programmer I worked with in the 1980s, who had just recently converted to C from FORTRAN, and had gotten into the (bad) habit of declaring array dimensions to have one extra value each:

    int max_length[NSHAPES + 1], max_height[NSHAPES + 1];

    /* ... */

    for (i = 1; i <= NSHAPES; i++) {
        /* ... */
    }
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(Which is a lot like the (equally bad) strategy in Perl of reassigning the variable $[ ...)

As a result of index renumbering, this programmer would encounter, at least once a week, some hard-to-find bug, and would always ask me "Do you think this might be a compiler bug?" If only I'd had MJD's list back then! ;)

s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/

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