The Schrödinger's Bug Paradox

Content Cycles in family tree software Asked 12 years, 7 months ago Modified 8 years, 5 months ago Viewed 286k times 1590 votes Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I am the developer of some family tree software (written in C and Qt). I had no problems until one of my customers mailed me a bug report. The problem is that the customer has two children with their own daughter, and, as a result, he can't use my software because of errors. Those errors are the result of my various assertions and invariants about the family graph being processed (for example, after walking a cycle, the program states that X can't be both father and grandfather of Y). How can I resolve those errors without removing all data assertions? C graph cycle assertions family-tree

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Content EXCEPTION IN Indentation error. Good luck figuring out where. Here is the exact class and method where things went wrong, followed by the exception it had. And here is how this method was called all the way from the beginning of the thread. As long as you recognize your classes and methods, you should be fine. motio.con

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WHAT IN THE BOOLEAN LOGIC NIGHTMARE IS THIS?! 🤯 Someone created a function called CompareBooleansEqual that calls AreBooleansEqual ... which returns false when values ARE equal and true when they're NOT! It's like building a fire alarm that screams "ALL CLEAR!" during an actual fire! Whoever wrote this probably also labels their sugar container as "salt" and vice versa. No wonder the dev needs a drink - I need the entire liquor store after seeing this code abomination!

Content Me with my last cup of coffee at 4am trying to fix the error at line 80 in my code with 70 lines