I think it would be more appropriate to ask: This conditional evaluates to `true`, but how? If you first ask, 'Is this possible?', then most of us, who have l

I think it would be more appropriate to ask: This conditional evaluates to `true`, but how? If you first ask, 'Is this possible?', then most of us, who have long forgotten terrible coding standards, would say no, out of hand. I would have thought the interviewer was testing to see if I was an idiot. I find once I resolve myself to knowing that the bug is possible, then I can find and fix it.