Compiler Dialectic

Compiler: Null Field In Parameters Disallowed outside partial units.

Will: What?

Compiler: Null Field In Parameters Disallowed outside partial units.

Will: What does that mean?

Compiler: Null Field In Parameters Disallowed outside partial units.

Will: Hmmm. [picks up phone and calls Willard]

Willard: That's one of our phantom errors. Start commenting stuff out*.

[twenty minutes later]

Compiler: Null Field In Parameters Disallowed outside partial units.

Will: Dangit! Hey Marcel, could you check over my code real quick?

Marcel: Sure. What's the error message.

Will: It's a phantom error.

Marcel: Which one?

Will: Something about partial units and null fields. Hold on.

Compiler: Incomplete IF statement on line 1304.

Marcel: Well I know that error is mysterious, Will, but I'd go ahead and check out line 1304.

Will: But... but that wasn't the error I was getting a minute ago!

Marcel: Yeah, yeah...

[five minutes later]

Compiler: Null Field In Parameters Disallowed outside partial units.

Will: Dangit!