Right Thing

That which is *compellingly* the correct or appropriate thing

to use, do, say, etc. Always capitalised, always emphasised

in speech as though capitalised. Use of this term often

implies that in fact reasonable people may disagree. "What's

the Right Thing for Lisp to do when it sees "(mod a 0)"?

Should it return "a", or give a divide-by-0 error?"

Opposite: Wrong Thing.

[Jargon File]

(1994-10-28)