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Pure Evil (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it would still be confusing why all semicolons are highlighted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

VSCode has a special case for this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We do a little trolling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 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.