• Dot (unregistered)

    Zreoth!

  • Jon (unregistered)

    I really need a t-shirt that just says TRWTF===PHP

  • (nodebb)

    The thinking capacity this developer demonstrated while fixing this bug is in line with the age zero, and emptiness is what's in his head.

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered)

    It's probably not the frist time we see this kind of "bug fixing": When a conditional, loop, abort trap or comparison leads to the expected result ALMOST every time, but not EVERY time, the obvious solution is to add an inversion of the conditional, increase or decrease a loop counter's end value by 1, add another exception (to be ignored), or change the direction of a comparison. It is also possible to combine those methods for more advanced "bug fixing", typically used by experensed programers and certified consultends like Paula.

  • (nodebb)

    Maybe the original devs were from East Asia, where certain countries there start age counting at age 1 from the day of birth.

  • (nodebb)

    if ( ! frist(comment) || frist(comment)) then frist

    ??

  • rx30fit (unregistered)
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  • Shakespeare (unregistered)
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  • (nodebb)

    Presumably the correct fix is something like this:

       if ( isset($_POST["age_at_time"]) && $_POST["age_at_time"] >= 0 )
   {
      // handle OK case
      ...
   }
   else
   {
      // handle not-OK case
      ...
   }
  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Steve, you're no fun Or is that 0 fun?
    or NULL fun?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Surely the correct fix is not to use PHP?

  • (nodebb)

    ISTM the correct fix is to actually have requirements.

  • xtal256 (unregistered)

    "child ages are zero-indexed"

    No, they are not. Age is a count (of years), not an index.

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