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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Friday, October 10, 2003 9:29:52 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Friday, October 10, 2003 12:09:43 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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-An action, datum or data that is not legal. Illegality is not transitient or temporary, it is permanent. (Re)Attempting an illegal action or (re)testing illegal datum or data should result in failure.
+An action, datum or data that is not legal. (Not legal for the computer's internal rules, not in the real world!)
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Illegality is not transitient or temporary, it is permanent. (Re)Attempting an illegal action or (re)testing illegal datum or data should result in failure.
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+The famous error message on [Windows] computers is something like "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down", which isn't a very meaningful error message to the majority of end users. A better message would say that there is a bug in the software and the program can't continue running
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Compare [Valid].
