Why, of all possible languages, would you suggest this for Javascript where semicolons are not mandatory
rule 24
Not only that, the interpreter will point directly to the line of code and possibly to the exact character that is the problem. Any programmer worth anything would find the issue or, worst case, retype the line of code and have the problem fixed rather quickly. “Illegal character” is a pretty easy error to diagnose.
But…I still chuckled a little at the intent of the joke. I’m sure there are better pranks one could come up with, though.
Ask the author of this meme.
Maybe if you’re “coding” in notepad
I had a friend who was a compsci minor who did almost the entirety of said minor on a really old chromebook. They did everything on a basic text editor. You would be surprised
Wouldn’t most development programs tell them the syntax error on the line and column where you replaced the semicolon
This wouldn’t work
VSCode will add a yellow box around the character and tell you it’s an uncommon glyph.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_63#_unicode-highlighting
To note, this came about because it could be valid code and it’s a security risk from copy/pasting malicious code. See:
Just tested in the console, it gives an illegal character error and gives you the line number.
Wanted to use this to prank a colleague but SQL server accepts that as well lol
Hah. Try it on my version controlled project!
What? Remapping your keyboard? Well, there are worst jokes, I still remember that time when the first PCs appeared and you could try them in shopping centers. They quickly stopped doing this, because some went into the BIOS and disabled the keyboard or worse, the screen. Good ol’ times 😏
Meanwhile in VS Code: hey, I see this Unicode symbol that’s confused for this expected symbol, would you like to replace it?
Even better would be to remap their keyboard’s semicolon key to that symbol
Before I read this comment I believed the concept of hell was immoral.
MSVC supports unicode. In C or C++, you could try:
#define ; ;
Second one is the greek semicolon but the client I’m using may strip it out. I’m too lazy to try.
That’s too evil. At my work people like to put a tape under someone’s mouse and it can be pretty funny.
Some hairs under the lens, it gives some funny erratic moves of the pointer.
giv’s
Wtf
It’s ok, someone either put a hair under his ‘e’ key, or remapped it so that it randomly spits out ’ instead.
