Re: [FWP] Puzzle - Can you find the bug faster than I did?

[Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "RJK" == Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu> writes:

RJK> I thought it was obvious even without the changed data.  :)

RJK> The big hint was that she kept getting "Part of same ID" every time.  This
RJK> suggests that there is a bug in comparing the current id to the previous id
RJK> -- and that is indeed the bug.

RJK> Having the code itself to look at was almost too much!  *grin*

I wouldn't call that a give-away. That could be caused by a buggy formerly
dead leg in the code becoming actived by the changed data.

I've done it a few times. Destroyed the key in a rarely executed code
path. Those are hard to find one _knows_ the code too well.

<chaim>
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