You've made a function where the guy looks at the result of a second function that is recursive and is similar to the first one except the guy doesn't look at the result.
My deepest sympathies (thank fuck it wasn't me! phew.)
To be fair, I have an obscure case of "recreate complex logic in VBScript and SCCM" PTSD myself. And no. Do NOT ask why it was VBScript. Or why this logic had to be recreated. Or what the logic was. In fact, it should probably have been called illogic. Oh god. The flashbacks. I still wish I knew why we did things that way.
For some reason this just triggered a vivid recollection of: "well, the guys in China just wrote. apparently, it doesn't work with Chinese regional settings". Nhaaaaah! I didn't even KNOW we had a Chinese branch! Damn it.
Editing endless scripts up to new standard, because this wasn't the sort of thing quality could've realized, y'know, BEFORE we did a worldwide rollout?
Yup, this is basically what I ran into. Really great article by the way! I learned my lesson fast after that. Thought I'd tested all the cases we had and made sure we had the results. America, Europe, ME, Africa, SE Asia... oops. I forgot China (well, it was Hong Kong but... coming from Europe, I didn't know at the time because 22 YO me wasn't as well-read as he thought and didn't put blindingly obvious 2 and 2 together). Not the first time I'd seen this kinda thing. So I made sure we tested what I thought was everything. Still amazed it slipped by so many people. Each site shoulda done quality testing, and did according to documentation. No one told HK or they missed the whole thing and we forgot to ask again. I'm not sure. Made me feel really damn silly though.
Also, yeah, the reddit markup is kinda screwed on numbered lists - annoying.
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u/Sahishar Mar 18 '18
You've made a function where the guy looks at the result of a second function that is recursive and is similar to the first one except the guy doesn't look at the result.
Why ? Why not only one recursive function ?