[aklug] Re: The Phantom Bug

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Thursday 16 April 2009, Christopher Howard said something like:
>> (*beats head against wall*) Have you ever noticed, whenever you are
>> coding a program, that there is always that one illusory bug. It
>> shows up without fail at run time, but for all that is good and
>> virtuous you can never find it in the actual code. You run over your
>> syntax line by line until your eyes fall out, but some how just as
>> you get close it realizes you are coming and hides somewhere else.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug#Heisenbug
>
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What's it called when you've created a bugfix that works but you really
don't know why?

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