I am pretty sure that every trainee and junior programmer I have ever mentored has come to me with a "bug in the compiler". I always try and find the gentlest w

I am pretty sure that every trainee and junior programmer I have ever mentored has come to me with a "bug in the compiler". I always try and find the gentlest way possible to tell them that it's unlikely that there is a bug and if there was then in all probability their more experienced colleagues would know about it. Usually however it is a good start point for revisiting the topic of program structure and the tricky question of "state". A quick re-write of the offending routine usually removes the "bug".