• argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      Take someone’s source code, replace all semi colons with Greek question marks and see if they can compile. But as others said, any IDE will help.

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          Not if you choose to replace the correct ones at the correct place and it is a compiler which automatically ignores this wrong semicolon.

          You could connect two lines, which may still “work” if not split using a semicolon and are then interpreted as one single line.

      • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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        Would probably be more effective to mess with Linux config files that use semicolons. Especially if it’s run as a daemon because Systemctl doesn’t always return helpful error messages for configuration errors.