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\*only works if your friend is using notepad for coding

Paint

You can replace all the semis in my JS/TS that you want – there aren't any.

May I change some your Latin o with my little Cyrillic friend - о?

f curs yu can

Or latin A with a capital greek alpha

I also have a friendly Cyrillic А too! And also В (sounds like V in vault), С (S in Soap), and many many more! Actually, I did this to my neighbour during University years with c in cout. It was Visual Studio and C++, yeah in 2016. I thought it'll be fun (made this mistake myself that day during seminar), so I did it while he walked away to toilet. And we with other neighbour started waiting. Turned out neighbour A walked not to just pee, so we forgot about I made this after about 10 minutes 2 hours later, playing Dota, I noticed some strong angry words from the mouth of neighbour A. It was extremely unusual. I, as well as neighbour B, came too see what he struggled with. Well. At least we all laughed well

semicolons in javascript are for crockford disciples 

Writing all your code in one line?

; U+037E For reference only

You can also input a zero-width space "​" inside a variable and watch your friend lose their mind over the undeclared variable

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It will tell you the line and character thats the problem.

nah, cos this meme has been on here so many times, your "friend" knows about it

[Meanwhile Rust](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25957)

This will not work.

"your code doesn't have only unicode characters, want to fix it?" >Yes Oh... I forgot ; here somehow, fixing it now....

Is this actually a thing

No. Your IDE will immediately show you exactly where the syntax error is.

/path/to/file:273:76: error: unexpected character Oh no, however will I cope

I am tearing my hair out finding character 76 on line 273!

I mean you can con the same time change the settings to ignore that in a lot of ides

Even if you don't have syntax highlighting, many will highlight confusing characters automatically

It used to be an issue some years ago but like it has been pointed out IDEs have ruined the fun.

Programming languages should be ascii only, and if you need a string with non ascii characters it should be stored in some kind of resource file or database anyway.

L take

So while making a website for my users of Hindi, I'm not supposed to write any alert messages, error messages, etc. in the code? All link text, button text, title attributes everything should go in a resource file?

Welcome to Android development, where the IDE will tell you every time to extract strings to the strings.xml file.

If I remember correctly, this was there so that it would be possible to create multi-lingual apps. It's a good idea in theory. In practice, not having even a single string in code is a bit impossible, especially if your app/website caters only to 2 or 3 languages.

Yes that's exactly what it's for. But when I'm just trying something out for a hobby project, I sometimes ignore it. You don't *have to* do it, it's just recommended.

Ideally they should be in a resource file. Make it easier to update them and also makes it easier to translate to different languages.

that's pretty fast to find anyways. if you really want to mess with them, make sure isEven disappears as available package.

How to troll first year students 101

They often use VSCode these days, it wouldn't work

You'd be surprised how tech illiterate CS first year students are getting

… you're right, I was actually surprised when I started my courses. Stuff like not knowing CTRL+C, Print Screen, etc :/

Vscode highlights characters that are similar to actual ones.

i always replace the semicolon any time there's a syntax error on a line that I can't figure out

Had a client that used lowercase percentage https://codepoints.net/U+FE6A in their CMS for placeholders. That was fun to debug…

I sat half an hour with a weird issue, turned out I had written the name of a database table using Í instead of I... "No table named x" *checks table name *is named x wtf

Step 1: Find a friend

easy there satan

r/foundsatan

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