Why isn’t this working?

Now see, if you had run this in the debugger the problem would have been blindingly obvious immediately. — Mike Ash

Overheard in IRC.  More than one developer has burned an afternoon trying to “read” his code to find a bug that is actually a side effect of some lower level kit.  This was in response to  this code snippet: Paste number 43572: Why isn’t this working?

No matter how long you stare at that code you aren’t going to find the bug. 

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