Talk:Undocumented feature

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It may be interesting to document the "bug dressed up as a feature" in more detail. Does anyone have additional information? Tkuvho (talk) 11:34, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Exceptions"

I don't understand the purpose of this section, or why it's separate from the other section. It seems like the idea is to have a section for "good" undocumented features, but that doesn't really seem to make sense given that the other section doesn't seem to define them as "bad" to begin with. Nlburgin (talk) 09:06, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Feature, not a bug"

While undocumented features can be highlighted in some cases as a "feature, not a bug" (usually when queried by an end-user), these are a subset of such instances, and not a true synonym. There are other cases when documented features can be flagged to end users as "features, not bugs", whether it's due to the end user not reading/having access to the relevant documentation, or perhaps having different expectations about normal program behaviour from the programmers/designers. I'll have to find some sourced examples and create a new article. — Sasuke Sarutobi (push to talk) 17:55, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]