Patient: Doctor, Doctor, it hurts every time I do this.
[Patient flaps arms in an unnatural fashion while rapidly banging their head against left and right shoulders].
Doctor: Don't do that.
In other words, do not follow a methodology blindly. If some aspect of the methodology "hurts,"
DontDoThat.
This phrase occurs often in
PerlLanguage books.
[WARNING: CYNICISM ALERT] This is used as Yet Another
RedHerring whenever somebody complains about some portion of a methodology that is not working.
When someone issues the
ItHurtsWhenWeDoThis complaint, listen carefully, as there is often embedded in the complaint a huge clue to the source of the problem.
e.g. "Whenever I allocate a buffer and return its address from a function I notice that my program crashes 30 minutes later."
I recently reported a bug to another team ("this method has the wrong semantics, when you call it with these kind of arguments, bad things will happen") and got a
DontDoThat response. sigh