On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 3:32 PM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > On 2/25/21 7:06 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Ethan Furman writes: > > >> Like I said, at this moment I don't have a good example, only an awareness > >> that such a thing could exist and I don't know the name for it (if it has > >> one). > >> > >> So far I have seen that there are even fewer good use-cases than I might > >> have guessed, and that no one seems to have a name for the general idea. > > > > Do you have a specific problem you're trying to solve? > > No, I just came across the concept in my browsing and was wondering if there > was a name for it. I think the most accurate name at this point is probably > "pain in the butt". ;-) >
"Design flaw" is a close second. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list