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by lfowles 3365 days ago
A little bit more context I had to go look up: the response is also dated 11 Mar 2015
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And as the author of the code writes 2-4 times, he looked for the literally mentioned quote and didn't find it -- he even posted the grep results.

He only found that it was "bitch" (single word) later from a later corrected comment and fixed it (out in the open, in the the public code repository in any way).

In any case, again, not technical, not a WTF, and not pertaining to the actual code/implementation.

The author of the code is the one who added that word to the code in the first place. You'd think he might remember that, even if the wording of the complaint was off.

https://git.enlightenment.org/legacy/evas.git/commit/src/lib...

https://git.enlightenment.org/legacy/evas.git/commit/src/lib...

If he does not, that invites the question of how many similar error messages are there in the code. Note that this is something that actually gets printed to stdout - in other words, if there's a bug in your app (or EFL, for that matter), your end user might see that message. I would dare say that's a pretty big WTF.