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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by kasparsklavins on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:58AM (#12452498)
Had this bug in a system I was working on. Pushed a patch in april.. and there still is an ongoing discussion whether it should be merged or not.
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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by int_19h on Friday September 09, 2016 @08:10PM (#12466941)
Why is there a discussion? What do the people who don't want to take the patch say? "We don't care if we lose customers with unusual names"?
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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by kasparsklavins on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:44PM (#12501457)
Because of code style (I do not mean spaces or tabs, it is beyond that). Different developers have different ideas of how a function should behave, where it literally has no effect on how the rest of the system works.
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