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Twilight Zone
Does anyone else here who programs have the weird experience of a script suddenly throwing an error for the first time, and when you go to look at it, the line that throws the error is unarguably wrong, no doubt about it, such that you find yourself nodding in agreement about the error...
...and then you realize that even with that error, it worked for the past five months. The question isn't "Why did this stop working?" but "Why did this ever work at all?"
This happens to me all the fucking time.
(And I have independent confirmation that I didn't just miss testing that bit - this is from that survey script I wrote back in November, and the report that used this script to produce its results has already been written.)
...and then you realize that even with that error, it worked for the past five months. The question isn't "Why did this stop working?" but "Why did this ever work at all?"
This happens to me all the fucking time.
(And I have independent confirmation that I didn't just miss testing that bit - this is from that survey script I wrote back in November, and the report that used this script to produce its results has already been written.)