bugs

[Rob Cozens]

Geoff,

>
>> The thing is, that is not a bug.  The programmer did not make any 
>> error
>> in his code at all.

You've removed the smiley; so I'm taking back some of that slack.

The original request was for bug-free SOFTWARE, not a bug-free CODE 
snippet.

>>   The code works as it was intended.
>>

So you're in the same camp as my Flexware buddy, Bernie Mulcahy: "my 
software is bug-free if people use it correctly"?

I write a lot of code that works the way it was intended....  And I end 
up changing a lot of code during debugging because I and/or the user 
find that what was intended (ie: in the project specs) turns out to be 
flawed in implementation, doesn't address a real-world issue, leads the 
user in the wrong direction, or is simply inferior to a different 
approach that comes out of the testing process.

Simply meeting a specification does not guarantee that every user who 
installs your software will experience no problems using it.  The 
critiques posted by others list several valid deficiencies in your 
example.

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)