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It's my experience that the the MCVE creates more XY problems not less. It makes a more pure abstraction by stripping away the context of the original question. That is the X might be contained within the context of the original question but the MCVE will be constructed solely to express Y.

Philip Couling
– Philip Couling

2015-11-11 23:57:31 +00:00
Commented Nov 11, 2015 at 23:57
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Thanks @couling (!). Yes, as methodology MCVE perhaps is not a "best practice", but is a way to enforce "... explain and show all the details...". Our brain works better after that kind of self-review... You can edit and correct the text, it is a Wiki.

Peter Krauss
– Peter Krauss

2015-11-12 07:39:10 +00:00
Commented Nov 12, 2015 at 7:39

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