PyWart(2.7.8) IDLE is more buggy than "Joe's apartment"!

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Mon Jul 21 12:56:08 EDT 2014


On 2014-07-21, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/07/2014 15:27, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico <rosuav at 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.
>
> As in my entire career I've never come across a "reasonable user" then 
> by that definition there are no bugs.

Well done!

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