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

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[-] Darohan@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day 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.com 25 points 1 day 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 /.

[-] stetech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Replace all spaces with the unicode non-breaking space that looks the same.

Although I know at least some language servers will detect this and mark it as an error, lol.

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