Is a ‘2’ in BOLD type sufficiently large, David? > On Oct 31, 2017, at 5:39 PM, David Adams via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech < > 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > >> I can guess the answer to that. The engineer responsible looked at the >> code and said, “yeah I can fix that, but it will be a lot of work”. And >> somebody said, "OK then don’t bother. You’ve got more important things to >> do. We’ll just call it ‘Standard Behavior’”. Pitiful! :( >> > > We'll never know. It could be that it is the result of a carefully thought > out design. > > Then again, you could have a function like Add(2;2) that returns 5 and > claim that it's "standard behavior" because it's consistent. No matter > what, it's still a bug (except for sufficiently large values of 2.) > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > **********************************************************************
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