in reply to Hidden Functionality of Perlmonks

I call this "debugging by confession", and it is almost always very effective. Trying to explain things to someone else forces you to structure your thoughts and think about the functionality of each piece of your code, which usually leads to finding the bugs :-)

Whenever I'm stuck with something, I usually walk into one of my neighbor offices or cubicles and start talking about my problem. Usually a solution comes up shortly afterwards.

--ZZamboni