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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 36 points 17 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.com 19 points 9 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 /.

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