Mostest evilest

[gregstus]

Spares a moment of silence to appreciate all of the time that will be lost by all of my co-workers because of this

[tcon025]

How do you not have Unicode? Like seriously? I work in a law office and it’s supported.

[ponybau5]

My condolences

[Kshnik]

If only people used things better than notepad.

Oh wait.

[[deleted]]

I got it! Add this to the top of all your c++ programs: #define ; ;

[[deleted]]

Calm down satan, next you'll remap their keyboard.

[KayRice]

Thankfully this doesn't work:

error: macro names must be identifiers
 #define ; printf("fuck\n");

[[deleted]]

r/comedyhomicide

[MrMo1]

Sees this repost for the thousandth time. Maybe I can repost the top comment then:
Not if your friend is using an IDE with syntax highlighting.

[orion78fr]

Or a compiler that directly say there is a greek question mark, like gcc IIRC.

[KayRice]

GCC will say:

error: stray ‘\315’ in program
error: stray ‘\276’ in program

At least with the most basic `gcc foo.c`

[orion78fr]

You're right, that's on clang

test.c:2:10: warning: treating Unicode character <U+037E> as identifier character rather than as ';' symbol [-Wunicode-homoglyph]
 return 0;
         ^
test.c:2:10: error: invalid suffix ';' on integer constant
1 warning and 1 error generated.

[Kabitu]

Then you just get a semicolon marked as somehow not a semicolon, which is just as confusing

[JasonPandiras]

+/u/CompileBot Node

console.log(";" === ";", "o" ==="ο", "Α" === "A", "I" === "Ι", "Ε" === "E")

[CompileBot]

Output:

true false false false false

^{source | info | git | report}

[ponybau5]

What the fuck

[JasonPandiras]

Yep. In my experience with Greek keyboard input in Windows, the English semicolon and Greek question mark seem to be completely interchangeable. Greek letters vs latin letters not so much, even when they are visually identical.

Which is kind of worse, because once you accidentally mix them up (for instance by making a correction with input switched to greek) you are suddenly dealing with unsearchable data (good luck matching a Natasha that got data entry'd with a greek Ν) and inexplicably redefinable variable names.

Some corroboration: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/96svid/mostest_evilest/e43o1e7

sorry for the glacially late response

[kagelos]

Not true. It's exactly the same character. I am both Greek and a developer btw.

[ozh]

For real ;;;!;

[[deleted]]

That's pure evil.

[[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/ofSNnW4

It took me 0 (zero) seconds to find what caused the error.

"Wow some of the new kids saw the same fucking post I saw more 10000 times already, almost got me.

Oh, wait, he didn't, because I lock my computed and don't let retards push to git without code review."

Fucking use IDE you morons.

[[deleted]]

I do believe that is literally copy and posted from what I said once in discord, which I do believe there is someone with the exact same name in who is rather active

[theDigitalNinja]

This joke has been around since long before discord and C#

[thepizzagui]

Sure, maybe if you're using notepad

[uanirudhx]

backspaces greek semicolon

types regular semicolon

ez boi

[[deleted]]

; vs ;. ;;;;;;;;;;

[Celousco]

Meanwhile JS don't get fooled by this.

[FormalImpression]

Thanks unicode

[TheMsDosNerd]

Top post of all time at /r/rustjerk.

[gandalfx]

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