I normally refrain from replying to my own posts.

However, no one seems to have added their own anecdotes:

I thought this would be a good place to gather similar examples of awkward or dense compile errors from everyone here.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Calling all honest coders: Please regale us with your darkest compiler error conundrums, stricture miseries, and "WTF?" moments!

After all, the world loves a good story :)