monero devs seems to be absolutely beginners - your accusations and anger touched us, here is a result of 10 min research of your kiddy coding, concerning Payments ID and games with your kiddy coin wallet:
Second chapter of any average "Beginners in C++ guide" says that arguments can be passed to parameters either by value or by reference.
Looks like monero devs did not noticed that, when they recently read that kind of books.

Lets look at this playground:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/d433a696e527a01c1cbef48495652335140f0bb2

With "Monero golden ampersand bug" made by monero devs, monero devs missed some &, wuuups:

bool validate_transfer(const std::list<wallet_rpc::transfer_destination> destinations, const std::string payment_id, std::vector<cryptonote::tx_destination_entry>& dsts, std::vector<uint8_t>& extra, epee::json_rpc::error& er);

bool wallet_rpc_server::validate_transfer(const std::list<wallet_rpc::transfer_destination> destinations, const std::string payment_id, std::vector<cryptonote::tx_destination_entry>& dsts, std::vector<uint8_t>& extra, epee::json_rpc::error& er)


Affects: Monero simplewallet since at least June 18 just lose all Payment ID data, so people can lost their money if they use your so called monero RPC "features". Again - all transfers in monero network made with JSON-RPC Payment ID, EG from Poloniex exchange to Bittrex exchange was made wrong if they use monero latest main kiddy code, or may be just lost. Qua, qua, qua ...

Users, be careful with kiddy coders.

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@ducknote Please don't act stupid, you're better than this.

1. You're conflating - that was pulled into the code long before there were any Monero developers: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/333f975760c156727dd7408f87e937af856d8bf1. We have not failed to credit the CryptoNote developers, and where there is code that is merged from other CryptoNote projects we ALWAYS credit the source. For example, we have credited Boolberry on more than one occasion: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/c050ff43bf5a8310b18081c5cd3d9bcd123416b8, https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/3bc16dc0e6bd38fbec51a054e640bacdb17a9a82. Similarly, Boolberry have credited us on more than one occasion: https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/commit/f7a019683a2ecc1954b761ac7094d588644ecf1c, https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/commit/88bfcbf6d067a3f15f3d22a87dcb54211dc11f17, and https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/commit/0ae9a2f24757e7229cf63776b5897c5b408c065e.

2. I've never heard of a "golden ampersand" bug, and neither has Google. Either you're outrightly lying, or you're using the wrong term entirely. Regardless, your ad hominem attack is nothing more than a straw man argument to try and detract from your despicable failure to credit the authors of the code you have merged down.

To be specific, again, this functionality (the payment ID being available in the JSON RPC transfer call) is not something you wrote. It is something we wrote. I have already linked you to the commit where it was merged on June 2nd. Don't worry - you're not the only one that has failed to credit Monero, Bytecoin also added the change on June 25th, stripped the code comments, and failed to credit us.

If you wish to remain honourable it would be appropriate for you not to insult me or any of the contributors to Monero, and to credit us where you have used our code. Of course, if there is anything you write that we use we will most definitely credit you, just as we have done with Boolberry.