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minus-square@x4740N@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish89•1 year agoWouldn’t most development programs tell them the syntax error on the line and column where you replaced the semicolon This wouldn’t work
minus-square@ShortFuse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink75•edit-21 year agoVSCode 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: https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/
minus-square@lechatron@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglish40•1 year agoJust tested in the console, it gives an illegal character error and gives you the line number.
minus-square@Cipher22@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish16•1 year agoIt would work for someone just starting and not knowing good tooling yet. However, the compiler should also tell you where to look and give you the area to look at as well. It’ll be less clear than an IDE, though.
minus-squarekamenlinkfedilink1•1 year agoYup. It’s as if we’re assuming this friend is coding inside Notepad.
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:
https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/
Just tested in the console, it gives an illegal character error and gives you the line number.
It would work for someone just starting and not knowing good tooling yet. However, the compiler should also tell you where to look and give you the area to look at as well. It’ll be less clear than an IDE, though.
Yup. It’s as if we’re assuming this friend is coding inside Notepad.