Comment on Pure Evil

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it would still be confusing why all semicolons are highlighted

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  • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    VSCode has a special case for this

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• etler@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That means that detection was added explicitly because this prank was done enough that it was worth it to add.

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  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We do a little trolling

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  • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason is in fact not only because of this exact symbol, but because people tried to change program’s behavior in a malicious way by replacing legitimate code with same looking symbols.

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