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Wrong Thing n.

A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or

inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as

if capitalized. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything

that is not the Right Thing. In cases where `the good is the

enemy of the best', the merely good -- although good -- is

nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for

module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than

just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."

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