Hardly as earth-shaking as, say, Eve’s new book, but I found a bug in Sun’s Java compiler. I submitted a bug report and was rewarded with the following e-mail in return:
I have been striving to become the Java expert here in my little corner of Boeing. More accurately, I am the Java expert here and I’ve been trying to convince everyone else of this, so this is a bit of a feather in my cap.
I know also that all my excellent friends on the SDMB will always think of me whenever they hear the number 4326631.
I’d like to thank all the Straight Dopers, my mom and dad, my high school English teacher, my two dogs, Missy and Riley, and most of all the Thoroughly Enchanting Mrs. Pluto and all the Plutinos for their unswerving devotion and support that allowed me to achieve this long-sought goal.
Thank you.
“I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.”
Emo Phillips
Missy, I’m afraid in this instance I was referring to our dog. But I’ll keep you in mind for future bug reports. FWIW, Missy is the “good” dog. The other one, Riley, the “bad” dog was discovered hiding in the kitchen garbage yesterday. She always snoops and sniffs around there anyway and someone left the kitchen stool close enough that she could climb onto it and get into the garbage can itself. But since it was nearly empty she couldn’t get back out. Mrs. Pluto heard a noise but when she went to investigate Riley went quiet and so Mrs. P. didn’t find her till she found a suspicious chicken bone on the floor. She said Riley was cowering amidst the odds and ends in there and generally trying to wish herself invisible.
Canthearya is one of my favorite posters, too, but I don’t want her whispering to me!!
Now if you just put a couple extra carriage returns in there, and instead of calling your class Test, called it “ThisShouldWork”, would that solve your problem? (Beaming with satisfaction)
Wow, pluto, 4326631. I was just thinking of that number, and how whenever I get to it I have nothing to relate it to. And now you come along with with that number. Amazing coincidence like that.
Now whenever anyone has their 4,236,631st post party, I’ll think of you.
I thought you were going to describe in riveting detail the illness from which you just recuperated! I thought maybe it was some new strain of something, and modern science was going to name it after you!
A Slightly Altered Perception of Reality…
Chrome Toaster
No offense taken. In this case it was existing code (over a year old) that suddenly wouldn’t compile. The code was originally derived from some sample code in the Java World tech tips column. So my guess is I’m not the only one who’s interested in this bug getting fixed before jdk1.3 is released.
The code submitted with the bug report was test code that I created to verify that it was a bug and not a programming error. It’s not code anyone would ever really use, but it’s derived from real code with non-essentials removed.
