• Well, I think this was a useful reminder to us to actually look at the code. Yeah you might have missed a point and there's an 'incorrect' answer against your name but if you read it properly before you answer you'll get it right. I don't think this was designed to trip us up so much as to test our debugging skills, when the OP was working on his issue he would have been thinking "What's wrong with my case filter?" so why not pose that question to us? It's real-world.

    If we can't so much as read a simple question properly on a simple 1-pointer, how are we expected to fully comprehend a business' requirements when we are developing some code from a functional spec etc.

    From my PoV the QotD is there, not as a status symbol or as bragging points but rather to help us do our jobs better. Sometimes that means showing us things we didnt already know, sometimes asking really complicated questions and other times simply to keep us on our toes so we don't get complacent in our day to day job. As the OP states, this came from a cut and paste error - we all get those from time to time and this is a good reminder to take a step back and really look at our code when we get unintented behaviour that we can't get our heads around.

    //edit - don't forget, if this question - or it's answer - was actually wrong it wouldn't have been published.

    Ben

    ^ Thats me!

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