bugs

[Geoff Canyon]

On Apr 7, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> How about this code:
>
> on mouseUp -- display the date
>   answer the date with "OK"
> end mouseUp
>
> Just thought I would make your day. ;-)


On Apr 7, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> To be fair, Geoff had a smiley in his post, so I think he deserves
> some slack cut here. But I can think of several scenarios where this
> will fail.

You are of course correct -- it was intended humorously. That said, I  
was also trying to point out that at a fine enough granularity, code  
_can_ be bug free.

But now you have me doubting myself: how could this fail?

There is the obvious possibility -- the developer could forget to  
include the answer dialog when building an app. But I don't think  
that qualifies as a bug in the code. You could get a date format  
you're unfamiliar with on a computer set to a different nationality  
than you expect, but that would still be a valid date, which is all  
the single-comment spec calls for.

So tell me what could go wrong? ;-)

regards,

Geoff