Why, of all possible languages, would you suggest this for Javascript where semicolons are not mandatory
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.
Even better would be to remap their keyboard’s semicolon key to that symbol
you are a criminal.
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.
Running #define ; anything yields error: macro names must be identifiers for both C and C++ in an online compiler. So I don’t think the compiler will let you redefine the semicolon.
Haha. Thanks for checking. Given the C pre-processor, I’m sure there’s a way to maliciously bork it if someone sets their mind to it.
Well I just tried #define int void in C and C++ before a “hello world” program. C++ catches it because main() has to be an int, but C doesn’t care. I think it is because C just treats main() as an int by default; older books on C don’t even include the “int” part of “int main()” because it’s not strictly necessary.
#define int void replaces all ints with type void, which is typically used to write functions with no return value.
I’m not sure but I think the second one looks just a tiny bit different, so it should have worked.
