On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You call it a bug because you can't think of any way it could be
> beneficial. That's the wrong way of looking at it. Something isn't a
> bug because you find it annoying; it's a bug because it fails to
> implement the programmer's intentions and/or the docs/specification.

I was always taught that it's a "bug" is when a program doesn't do
what a reasonable user expects -- that it's got nothing to do with the
programmer's intent.

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