<p>This result is certainly inconsistent.  But no system works perfectly.  The migrated question definitely looks like an SO coding question to me.  Even with the comments it is a little ambiguous that the real problem is the OP doesn't properly understand the concepts rather than the code.  I can understand how it was migrated.  </p>

<p>Actually, the closed-as-duplicate question sounds like more of an on-topic, conceptual question than the migrated one.  In light of that, and since we have no control over getting the other one back, why not edit the duplicate and we can re-open it?  </p>
