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• Print partial results to trace the execution of a program and find errors.
• wirling baton: [PLATO] n. The overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an animated twirling baton.
  If you output it with a single backspace between characters, the baton spins in place....
• wirling baton n. [PLATO] The overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an animated twirling baton.
  If you output it with a single backspace between characters, the baton spins in place....
• hidden flag n. [scientific computation] An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• hidden flag: [scientific computation] n. An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• fencepost error n. 1. [common] A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops.
  From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?...
• ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n. [Purdue] 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• dead code: n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed
  or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else....