Code as a Second Language

Subtitle: Why Magento sometimes makes people crazy.

Pop quiz. What does this bit of code do? Hint: It’s used on the catalog search page, and “query” means the text a user entered

Mage::helper('catalogsearch')->isMinQueryLength()

If you said

returns true if the search text is of the minimum query length

You’d be logically right, but 100% wrong. This method returns true if the query text is too short

My guess is this method was written by a non-native english language speaker, and something got lost in the translation.