Hyrum's Law

   With a sufficient number of users of an API,
   it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
   all observable behaviors of your system
   will be depended on by somebody.

▲ Avamander 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One more reason to actually reimplement coreutils. Figuring out these undocumented promises also makes it easier to ensure correctness in general.

	▲	steveklabnik 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’re downvoted but you’re correct. The uutils folks have been submitting bugs and test cases upstream. It actively helps both projects.

▲ lioeters 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Every change breaks someone's workflow. https://xkcd.com/1172/