XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:41:12 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-04, Niklas Karlsson  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-01-04, Peter Flass  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I look at some code and wonder "how the heck has this ever worked?",   
   >>> but the answer is that no one ever hit that combination of things   
   >>> before, or used that option.   
   >>   
   >> That's certainly the sensible explanation, but I've had scenarios like   
   >> that, even with my own code from the past, where I could swear up and   
   >> down that I myself had successfully used that code in the exact   
   >> scenario that would obviously break.   
   >   
   > Yup.  Sounds like a Schrodinbug.  It should have never worked, but it   
   > does until you look at it - and then it never works again.   
      
   Conversely, it fails until you log a debug statement to see what's going   
   on and it works.  I'd never, never just leave the debug in place, no   
   siree.   
      
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