Sometimes ya gotta laugh. I just spent nearly an hour chasing one of those bugs that “can’t be happening” because “the code looks absolutely correct (as far as I can tell).” Of course, the bug, once you find it, was always hiding in plain view.

This time the fix involved adding just two characters and incidentally improving the program semantics, and very much reminded me of the old joke about the huge cargo ship that breaks down at sea…

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