On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Joseph Groseclose <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Isn't this logic theoretically broken? If any existing code is using it,
> the code that is using it is probably performing an invalid or inaccurate
> operation and therefore this would only break that code so much as it was
> already not functioning as expected?
>

There are many examples of code that doesn't really do what the author
thought it does, but just so happens to do what's required to produce a
correct result in combination with other, potentially equally "incorrect"
code. "Fixing" the logic here would mean breaking the overall program.
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