Andreas Raab wrote:

> 
> [BTW, I think there is some confusion with various posters what 
> "shrinking" means. For me it is the process of applying a heuristic to 
> determine which classes and methods can be removed. In other words, it 
> is NOT a process where a developer decides explicitly what gets removed, 
> which is why there is a certain amount of unpredictability and 
> randomness to it].

So the inverse conclusion is that if a developer writes an application 
there is "a certain amount of unpredictability and randomness to it" 
what it actually contains?

No wonder we have so many bugs in our programs ;-)


Michael