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Wrong Thing
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n. A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate.
Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if capitalized. The
opposite of the Right Thing ; more generally, anything that is not the Right
Thing. In cases where the good is the enemy of the best , the merely good
although good is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. In C, the default is for
module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within
the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing.