I read Bug Reports today oh boy!

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I read two bug reports today (issues…): the first was a good one (every one must be as good as this one) and the second…

I downloaded the example project and copy the offending method (select the Method Name, Copy and Paste below):


Public Function SimpleMethod(value As String) As string
  Function SimpleMethod() As String
    Return "Hello World!"
  End Function
  
End Function

I am speechless. The guy do not checked (nor read) the documentation. He is not alone in this case, but it is the first one who demonstrate it.

NB: I can, at times, misread the documentation (read the first line and skip the important part, wrongly understand, etc. but I read it, i search before asking).

I don’t like Mondays…

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Huh?

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You’ve also skipped the important step of telling us what issue this is in Tracker…

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Emile is a cryptic person.

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I found it and remarked it :cowboy_hat_face:

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At least I got the Beatles reference in the subject :slight_smile:

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It was nearly there.

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The Issue reference was not important.

The master point was: the poster does not read the documentation (as we all know this arise all the time).

The Issue disapeared soon after I posted this note.

I do not wanted a ton of mails, so I created this thread.

I do not wanted to have fun on anyone, but the Beatles reference makes me smile. :wink:

Regards

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I certainly wouldn’t make fun of someone for being inexperienced, but it takes a very special snowflake to believe there’s such a fundamental bug in a fairly-prominent programming language and that it’s not their own error.

As developers we’ve all dealt with a few of these as we provide support for our applications. Sometimes it’s good to know that our experience is not unique in this regard.

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Suggestion to Xojo:

Add the pdf “Introduction to Programming With Xojo” into the dmg/iso…
with a link to the examples folder and teacher’s book.

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