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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
inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if
capitalized. The opposite of the <a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right Thing</i></a>; more
generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where &#8216;the
good is the enemy of the best&#8217;, the merely good &#8212; although good
&#8212; is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. &#8220;<span class="quote">In C, the default is for
module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within
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