(How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry) - eviltoast

Probably not a good title to seek upvotes. If it does get upvotes, more programmers get share in your pain 😅

  • Darohan@lemmy.zip
    29·
    13 hours ago

    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)

    • sleep_deprived@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      6 hours ago

      Fun 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 /.