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schroedinbug


schroedinbug: /shroh'din-buhg/ [MIT: from the Schroedinger's Cat
   thought-experiment in quantum physics] n. A design or
   implementation bug in a program that doesn't manifest until someone
   reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that
   it never should have worked, at which point the program promptly
   stops working for everybody until fixed.  Though (like bit
   rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have
   harbored latent schroedinbugs for years.  Compare heisenbug,
   Bohr bug, mandelbug.