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by coldtea 3369 days ago
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.
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int_19h 3368 days ago
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.

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