• @x4740N
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    957 months ago

    Wouldn’t most development programs tell them the syntax error on the line and column where you replaced the semicolon

    This wouldn’t work

    • @[email protected]
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      397 months ago

      Just tested in the console, it gives an illegal character error and gives you the line number.

    • @Cipher22
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      167 months ago

      It would work for someone just starting and not knowing good tooling yet. However, the compiler should also tell you where to look and give you the area to look at as well. It’ll be less clear than an IDE, though.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, doing something similar with brackets would be much more effective since that usually doesn’t give a line number. Is there a unicode clone of )?

    • kamen
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      27 months ago

      Yup. It’s as if we’re assuming this friend is coding inside Notepad.