`Decimal(sign:exponent:significand:)` causes unexpected sign

https://github.com/apple/swift-foundation/issues/833

by rockbruno • 2 years ago

51 11 2 years ago

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tedunangst• 2 years ago

The only thing that makes people angrier than Apple ignoring bugs is Apple fixing bugs.

YawningAngel• 2 years ago

At some point bugs become expected behaviour

toyg• 2 years ago

Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172/

0cf8612b2e1e• 2 years ago

Sounds like the issue is they corrected the bug without documenting the breaking change and did it with minimal notice. Worse yet is that the API change will impact all software running on the host. So even if your distributed program works today, it will subtlety break when the user upgrades their host OS.

syspec• 2 years ago

Well to be fair it is a developer beta

paxys2• 2 years ago

If a bug has been shipped to production and people are depending on it, it isn't a bug but a feature. If you then "fix" it without notice, it is a breaking change. This is all software/platform development 101.

robertlagrant• 2 years ago

Just like the coders who rely on electric shocks[0]!

[0] https://programmerhumor.io/programming-memes/stackoverflow-h...

cruano• 2 years ago

Since when is a beta version of something "production"?

`Decimal(sign:exponent:significand:)` causes unexpected sign

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