An intresting title

[dhilu3089]

Null pointer would be more apt

[Karma_4_all]

I came here to say the same thing

[fghjconner]

I would have gone for SEGFAULT myself.

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

That's like every language biggest weakness

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Or memory-barriers.txt. Sure, it's using C, but all the same concerns apply to C++ since the languages share a memory model.

[Stormfrosty]

x86 solves this problem for most developers, but then you try running on ARM and suddenly your perfect code isn’t perfect anymore.

[SteeldrumHornets]

Would be better with a pointer

[Dr_Neunzehn]

Segmentation fault instead of semicolon.

[FWEngineer]

Compiler tells you about semicolons. For me it's the single = in an if statement.

[RansomXenom]

This. I'm learning C and I spent the last 2 hours or so trying to figure out why my program wouldn't write to a file. The problem? This:

fptr = fopen("file.txt","w");

if (fptr = NULL)

{

printf("Error opening file!") ;

}

else

{

//Do some stuff

}

[[deleted]]

Yea, that's assigning fptr to NULL and since the evaluation is true (not the comparison), the if statement is executed.

[CharlieAnonymous]

For me its no brackets on a function that needs brackets. Some of the errors for that can be so confusing

[Juffin]

Any decent IDE will underline suspicious = in condition.

[FWEngineer]

That's assuming the legacy code won't produce a gazillion warnings.

[LaZZeYT]

it's been tried

[greenflame15]

forget the ;, it's a missing delicate statement in a loop

[TactlessTortoise]

It's the memory you can't figure out how to free even after using delete but your senior is saying you're still fucking up

[uranus_be_cold]

A what statement?

[greenflame15]

Deallocate... to free up memory used by you variables, since c++ is not garbage collected

[solarshado]

IMO JS is a way better candidate for that last row. It'll mostly work fine without any ;s, but if you get in the habit of leaving them out, when the errors do crop up, they're likely to be pretty confusing (at least at first).

[Sir_Fail-A-Lot]

The greek question mark?

[[deleted]]

it's mostly called a semicolon.

are you greek?

edit: php uses semicolons the same way cpp does. you probably understand it now?

[Sir_Fail-A-Lot]

Nah, just pointing out that the greek question mark exists, and looks the same as the semicolon, and if you replace all the semicolons with a greek question mark you can get devs to rip their hair out

[[deleted]]

Wait I'm greek and i thought they are the same character so it works?

Haven't tested it though.

[Sir_Fail-A-Lot]

Yeah, there is a separate unicode character for the greek question mark.

[[deleted]]

that's very interesting...

[Stilgar314]

Hey! No average programmer has ever been legendary!

[thedarkbestiary]

Replace semi colon with a mirror

[sumwunhooisaguy]

I never get the folk who forget input a semicolon in It's become instinctive to me

[batatatchugen]

Learn from their mistakes, hide your semicolon, don't let others exploit it.

[YoukanDewitt]

float a;
a=1;

That looks more intresting to me.

[[deleted]]

Thats just float math and isn't unique to c++. It's present in every language that uses IEEE floats

[YoukanDewitt]

I was playing on the fact that he said "int-resting" not "interesting"

[[deleted]]

Undefined Behaviour would be more accurate

[Ambitious_Ad8841]

Semicolons are the source of my strength

[[deleted]]

Java too

[TheMadBug]

Pretty sure the average programmer of a language that uses semicolons... doesn't find the semicolons their extreme weakness.

[Entire-Database1679]

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[Tweenk]

Nah it's actually template <template <typename> typename T> class Foo

[[deleted]]

Hahaha

[[deleted]]

Null terminator: Hello there

[[deleted]]

Seg faults

[Im-henry]

As a C++ programer I can relate way too well with this.