That reminds me of this time I wrote some code to add a method to Python string objects. The first reply to my issue on it in the bug tracker was "We shouldn't

That reminds me of this time I wrote some code to add a method to Python string objects. The first reply to my issue on it in the bug tracker was "We shouldn't accept this, it's trivial to implement in your own code, see: XXXX". The second reply was "You have a bug in your implementation in the first reply." It took a couple years to be accepted.