Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 1 12:56:25 PDT 2014


On 10/1/14 3:24 PM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 14:46:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 10/1/14 10:36 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>
>> This is a grey area that I think reasonable people
>> can correctly call a bug if they so wish, despite the intentions of
>> the developer.
>
> Correctly?
>
> In a discussion, It's amazing how difficult it is to agree also on
> simple words meaning: an _intentional programmer behaviour_ a bug?

More appropriately, it's not a bug but an incorrect design. I still 
would call it a bug, and I'm 99% sure the users would report it as a bug :)

-Steve


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