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arrow-up182arrow-down1message-square(How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry)@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 11 hours agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
Probably not a good title to seek upvotes. If it does get upvotes, more programmers get share in your pain 😅
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink29•10 hours agoReplace a semicolon (;) with a Greek Question mark (;), provided they’re working in a language that uses semicolons at the end of every line, and their IDE doesn’t highlight the difference (which some do now)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•3 hours agoFun fact, Rust has a special error message for this: Unicode character ‘;’ (Greek Question Mark) looks like a semicolon, but it is not. It also detects other potentially confusing Unicode characters, like the division slash which looks like /.
Replace a semicolon (;) with a Greek Question mark (;), provided they’re working in a language that uses semicolons at the end of every line, and their IDE doesn’t highlight the difference (which some do now)
Fun fact, Rust has a special error message for this:
It also detects other potentially confusing Unicode characters, like the division slash which looks like
/.