Wouldn’t most development programs tell them the syntax error on the line and column where you replaced the semicolon
This wouldn’t work
VSCode will add a yellow box around the character and tell you it’s an uncommon glyph.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_63#_unicode-highlighting
To note, this came about because it could be valid code and it’s a security risk from copy/pasting malicious code. See:
It would work for someone just starting and not knowing good tooling yet. However, the compiler should also tell you where to look and give you the area to look at as well. It’ll be less clear than an IDE, though.
Yeah, doing something similar with brackets would be much more effective since that usually doesn’t give a line number. Is there a unicode clone of )?
Yup. It’s as if we’re assuming this friend is coding inside Notepad.
Even better would be to remap their keyboard’s semicolon key to that symbol
Before I read this comment I believed the concept of hell was immoral.
We all have the one friend or coworker…
you are a criminal.
Meanwhile in VS Code: hey, I see this Unicode symbol that’s confused for this expected symbol, would you like to replace it?
Maybe if you’re “coding” in notepad
That’s too evil. At my work people like to put a tape under someone’s mouse and it can be pretty funny.
Some hairs under the lens, it gives some funny erratic moves of the pointer.
giv’s
Wtf
It’s ok, someone either put a hair under his ‘e’ key, or remapped it so that it randomly spits out ’ instead.
The funny erratic movement can keep your work pc from locking up while you do nothing. It’s win win.
If you get a post-it just right halfway over the lens, the mouse will only move in one direction!
U+037E
BOM U+FEFF is another fun one, most editors won’t show it but it can cause errors like when I found one in a SQL script that was combined from existing utf-8 files together with cat. You’ll see it in a hex editor or in notepad I think it just made the rest of the line italic.
MSVC supports unicode. In C or C++, you could try:
#define ; ;
Second one is the greek semicolon but the client I’m using may strip it out. I’m too lazy to try.
I’m not sure but I think the second one looks just a tiny bit different, so it should have worked.
Hah. Try it on my version controlled project!
What? Remapping your keyboard? Well, there are worst jokes, I still remember that time when the first PCs appeared and you could try them in shopping centers. They quickly stopped doing this, because some went into the BIOS and disabled the keyboard or worse, the screen, Hail Satan. Good ol’ times 😏
No I mean the code is on a git repository so you see unsaved changes
Wanted to use this to prank a colleague but SQL server accepts that as well lol
8===D (;)
Replace all
Hiltu/foundsatan
Would be cooler if u do it in C
Imagine using a language that still uses semicolons.
I still use it in Spanish, English and also in German, but certainly not very often.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/a-guide-to-using-semicolons
Klingon doesn’t have a semicolon, switch to that.
But they programm in Malbolge
I use Rust
What about the Oxford semicolon in formal languages?
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