28 Apr
2014
28 Apr
'14
7:56 a.m.
A couple of reasons for minimal examples: having an isolated issue is easier to debug and in the process of simplifying the code you might stumble on the solution yourself. For example, I have a book that uses dozens of files. When I encounter an issue, I concatenate the files and then start chopping out chunks that don't affect the output. Eventually I get down to a minimal example that allows me to further research the issue. If I get stuck, then I post the problem. It's time-consuming but you can't assume people will dedicate the time to replicate issues based on descriptions... :-) Try to whittle down a minimal example that illustrates the problem.