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You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit

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Re: Adding a comment sometimes caused compile failure

off-by-one errors:

When Scottish independence was being even more hotly debated than it is now, I wanted to find out how many Scottish members there were in the House of Lords*.

I went to the Government web site, asked for a list of peers, and was rewarded with the response:

"Found, 781 of 780"

*The House of Lords is an anachronistic legislative chamber peculiar to the (currently) United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth which contains some wise and venerable people selected for their great knowledge and ability, but mostly politicians who did so well in public life that they had to be removed from the House of Commons (The elected body) to where they could cause less damage, plus some actual hereditary peers (who get to stay there by being voted in by other hereditary peers), and of course senior public servants like old civil servants (whose devotion to a political master was so great it needed / deserved reward), former top police officers and chiefs of the general staff, and Norman Tebbit, Jeffrey Archer, and Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

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