Even though I agree with you of the misuse of the word "Shim" in relationship to programming. But I was thinking. Would a blank line inserted in a block of code to ais in it readability be considered a shim?

>Renoir,
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>Yep, I have the same definition of "shim". And I just can't see how the word can apply in any way to programming.
>No matter what they MEANT, it's stupid and grossly unhelpful to suddenly start using a word for something that cannot fit at all. We all end up making up our own definitions, which is a surefire way to achieve chaos.
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>Microsoft is the master of this device.
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>cheers, and enjoy your long weekend.
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>>A shim in my world is something used to support something by taking up some space. Like putting pack of matches under a table leg. Or a real cedar shim in a doorframe. Maybe they meant it as coding something not in the standard - or cleanest - way to solve the problem.
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>>>Recently someone here wrote something like "... code a shim to ...". "Shim", I asked myself. What the hell would that be!?!?!!! I chalked it up to another Microsoft invention.