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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

turned out to be a semicolon

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The tests wouldn't even run of that was the issue, pretty sure (depends on the language I suppose)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fun situations can arise when you write , instead of ; For those not in the know, in c++ the comma operator evaluates the left expression, discards the value, then evaluates the right expression and returns the value. if you now have a a situation like this

int i = 0,
printf("some message");

i has a completely different value, since it actually uses the return value of printf instead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And people give Python shit for significant whitespace 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll just write thousands of lines of code inside a global object... I'm sure I won't put a semicolon where a comma should be...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easy solution:

Find all: ;

Replace with: ,

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And in python, no less. Sloppy.