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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Any remotely capable IDE will immediately show you what, and where, the problem is.
it would still be confusing why all semicolons are highlighted
VSCode has a special case for this
That means that detection was added explicitly because this prank was done enough that it was worth it to add.
We do a little trolling
The reason is in fact not only because of this exact symbol, but because people tried to change program’s behavior in a malicious way by replacing legitimate code with same looking symbols.