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TIL about the greek question mark ;;;;;;;;;; (lemmy.world)
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TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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[-] dog@suppo.fi 1 points 2 years ago

Who even uses semicolons in 2023?

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 24 points 2 years ago

Programmers?

[-] dog@suppo.fi 1 points 2 years ago

Do Rust, Nim, etc use semicolons? I don't remember

[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

Rust does. But you get:

error: unknown start of token: \u{37e}
 --> test.rs:2:30
  |
2 |     println!("Hello, World!");
  |                              ^
  |
help: Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like ';' (Semicolon), but it is not
  |
2 |     println!("Hello, World!");
[-] Oisteink@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

Front end “developer”?

[-] dog@suppo.fi 1 points 2 years ago

Fairly sure they just use IDE's.

Or chatgpt.

[-] Oisteink@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure your Java code would be unreadable using blocks inside blocks for each statement to avoid semicolons

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