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Pure Evil

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨realitista@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨programmer_humor@programming.dev⁩

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  • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    any modern compiler or ide will notice this and warn you.

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    • massive_bereavement@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same, I thought this is gotta be a problem for someone who uses notepad as their main editor.

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    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      meanwhile vim:

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      • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        vim is not an ide i believe. but an lsp will notice

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    • watcher@nopeeking.link ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, it will tell you that it existed a semicolon… 😁

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      • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        …for which my default fix would be to delete and reenter it in hopes of fixing ehatever hiccup the syntax validator is having

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any remotely capable IDE will immediately show you what, and where, the problem is.

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    • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it would still be confusing why all semicolons are highlighted

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      • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        VSCode has a special case for this

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    • etler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We do a little trolling

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      • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Something similar happened to me a while back. I was copying some code from a Mac to a remote Linux host. For some reason the Mac was using a thing called an “en dash” – which is slightly longer than a regular hyphen - and was really fucking frustrating to figure out.

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    • pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know why I’m here commenting about this, but I love type, so:

      Hyphen (-): the short one, used for hyphenated words. fire-eaters. Close-up.

      en-dash (–): slightly longer, traditionally the length of a lowercase"n" in the typeface. Used between for things like a timeframe. 10–11:30, August–October

      em-dash (—): the longest of the three, and the length of a lowercase “m”. Used as a punctuation mark to denote a side comment or to abruptly cut off a sentence. “It’s a great punctuation mark—in fact I overuse it—but it’s still useful.” “Hey where are you going with that giant—”

      I didn’t bother to double check the definitions, so there might be more specific rules, but these are my rules of thumb.

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      • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dictionary source for possible particulars: merriam-webster.com/…/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use

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      • Chemical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thank you. I have learned something new today!

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    • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some mac apps have some quirks, the default note app was probably not meant for pasting code in, but when you do it changes the quotes and makes them all fancy. Drives me up the wall and there’s nobody to blame but me.

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      • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I blame Steve Jobs.

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      • jadedwench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I was looking for this. Some text from webpages end up pasting that way too, even on non-mac systems, and it is utterly infuriating. Nothing I hate more than having to paste something into notepad++ so I can fix all the stupid quotes from some online tutorial that is giving you things to paste into a command prompt.

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  • python@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ESLint has entered the room

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    • MeatsOfRage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or any coding software really. Does this guys friend code in notepad?

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  • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who uses semicolons in Javascript?

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    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Programmers who care about best practices. Here are a couple of scenarios where not using a semicolon will bite you in the ass.

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      • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • tkarika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every real programmers

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In that sentence, we use “programmer” singular, because “every” is singular, though referring to many

        All real programmers

        Every real programmer

        Each real programmer

        No real programmer

        It’s pretty arbitrary

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    • Perfide@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People who like minimizing the amount of bug fixing.

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    • BearJCC@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Old habits die hard. Learned JS, CSS and C++ all the same year about a decade ago.

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    • manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use prettier which by default adds semicolons. Coming from predominately doing backend stuff (mostly in Java) I don’t really mind, especially when the formatter adds them for me

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      • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s what I do too, but i don’t manually add them

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  • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    semicolons are optional in js anyway…

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    • mrpants@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of the time. Sometimes it can lead to code that is ambiguous and ASI picks the wrong way to interpret it.

      stackoverflow.com/…/what-rules-must-i-follow-to-w…

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      • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Right, but there’s not going to be a syntax error.

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  • drew_belloc@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the language doesn’t force me to use semicolons i will forget

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  • itsraining@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think any Greek layout uses a different Unicode codepoint for the question mark. In fact, the classic semicolon is used, so what the meme describes would not happen IRL.

    Does all this make it any less funnier? No. It’s brilliant.

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    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.

      Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark

      I’m still curious whether it would be accepted by the code interpreters / compilers of various languages. I’m not bold enough to assume they all normalise properly.

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      • itsraining@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wow, thank you, didn’t know of that.

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    • nxfsi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unicode should have enforced the principle of using the same encoding for similar looking characters like they did with CJK instead of allowing bullshit like the Cyrillic “o” or the Greek question mark.

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      • yum13241@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        1,000% percent.

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  • Boxman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me who programs in rust with a specific compiler message to tell me what happened

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cargo fix

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  • tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t even know what to say to this one.

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