Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

banana problem
     
        (From the story of the little girl who said "I know how to
        spell "banana", but I don't know when to stop").  Not knowing
        where or when to bring a production to a close (compare
        {fencepost error}).  One may say "there is a banana problem"
        of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination
        conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that
        may be succumbing to featuritis (see also {creeping elegance},
        {creeping featuritis}).  See item 176 under {HAKMEM}, which
        describes a banana problem in a {Dissociated Press}
        implementation.  Also, see {one-banana problem} for a
        superficially similar but unrelated usage.
     
        (1995-01-31)