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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Wrong Thing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="write-only-memory.html" title="write-only memory"/><link rel="next" href="wugga-wugga.html" title="wugga wugga"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Wrong Thing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="write-only-memory.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wugga-wugga.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Wrong-Thing"/><dt xmlns="" id="Wrong-Thing"><b>Wrong Thing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or
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inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if
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capitalized. The opposite of the <a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right Thing</i></a>; more
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generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where ‘the
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good is the enemy of the best’, the merely good — although good
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— is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. “<span class="quote">In C, the default is for
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module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within
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the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="write-only-memory.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wugga-wugga.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">write-only memory </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wugga wugga</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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