The pain of programming - just venting

[David Healey]

I've spent the last two days trying to solve an issue with my custom wordpress API plugin. In order to do that I had to set up a proper PHP debugger, in order to that I needed to update the PHP version on my local server, in doing that I accidently wiped my database!

So then I tried to restore from a backup, that didn't work, so then I rebuilt the site. Then I installed the debugger and spent two hours trying to get it to work. Then it finally worked and in two minutes I found the problem - I needed to add a single backslash to my code!

[Casey Kolb]

@d-healey I feel your pain. I spent a week trying to figure out why the new Develop branch was completely incompatible with CUBE. Every time I would open it, I'd get like 30 errors with no explainable cause and the whole interface was broken. Turns out x === undefined now always returns false in HISE, and all I had to do was change it to x == undefined or use isDefined()

[arminh]

@d-healey said in The pain of programming - just venting:

m a backup, that didn't work, so then I rebuilt the site. Then I installed the debugger and spent two hours trying to get it to work. Then it finally worked and in two minutes I found t

Just PHP things. That's why I prefer write own ecommerce solutions with MENN (Mongo, Express, Node, Next.js);

[Christoph Hart]

@Casey-Kolb I think what you have encountered is the special Javascript type void, which is only used if you try to access a nonexistent member of an object (or out-of bounds indexed access of an array). I don't understand why it's there and any code that relies on that distinction has a code chance to win the "Most Horrible Code Award", but apparently the === operator (which I never use) distinguishes between undefined and void.

var x = {};
var y = undefined;

reg a = x.prop == undefined; // true
reg b = x.prop === undefined; // false (it's void)
reg c = y === undefined; // true (it's undefined);

[Casey Kolb]

@christoph-hart Fascinating! I've definitely been nominated for "Most Horrible Code Award" before

[Dan Korneff]

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