What is your favourite bug? (Was: brain gymnastics)
Carl,
> ROFL! I like it! Deliberate bad formatting => confusing code.
> Were the heck did you find this nightmare?! 
Originally it was a mean little bug in one of my programs.
I solved an equation on a piece of paper and ended up with
-y = ...
Sometimes it makes sense to keep the minus sign on the right
side, so I wrote this straight into my program. Because y already
had a value and because the previous line happened to be an
expression, everything seemed to work just fine...
Until I realized it didn't. Type checking didn't catch any error, the tracer
seemed to just elegantly jump over exactly the line I was interested
in... In the end I was certain there was a bug in Eu!
This one must be my favorite bug, and that could be a cool thread:
I guess it stands to reason that smart programmers like us also write
smart bugs... So everybody: what is your all time favorite bug? 
Tor
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