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    "A month of sundays ago Rik van Riel wrote:"
    > It almost seems like a bug doesn't exist until you can
    > see it with your own eyes -- this is a completely
    > unacceptable point of view since we are programming
    > code that is to be used by millions of users on thousands
    > of different hardware/load combinations.

    Yes. Quite right. It is a classical statement (Hoare? Joy?) that
    testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.
    To prove the absence you have to rely on theory. Add rik's extra
    test.

    Peter

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