minus-square@rtxnlink57•edit-21 year agoHow this plays out in reality: “This line at this character is giving me a syntax error… I’ll just delete and rewrite it, maybe there’s a stray whitespace. Oh, it runs now. Weird. Whatever.”
minus-square@JollyTheRancherlink19•1 year agoWhile I imagine this is typically true, I once spent a couple hours on something like this.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoOr you would spot the changed line in git immediately and revert it
How this plays out in reality:
“This line at this character is giving me a syntax error… I’ll just delete and rewrite it, maybe there’s a stray whitespace. Oh, it runs now. Weird. Whatever.”
While I imagine this is typically true, I once spent a couple hours on something like this.
spoken like someone who hasn’t been bitten by codepoints before
Or you would spot the changed line in git immediately and revert it