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No. Greek Semicolons hold no power here. (lemmyonline.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

error: unknown start of token: \u{37e}
 --> src/main.rs:2:30
  |
2 |     println!("Hello, world!");
  |                              ^
  |
help: Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like ';' (Semicolon), but it is not
  |
2 |     println!("Hello, world!");
  |                              ~

error: could not compile `playground` (bin "playground") due to previous error

[–] balder1993 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s a well designed compiler.

[–] Mikina 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I would rather see it just added to the standard definition as a valid character, so the compilation passes without issues. It would make lives of Greek programmers a little bit easier!

But on a second though, it would probably make the lives of compiler programmers a living hell. Having to deal with two symbols for one thing sounds really annoying :D

[–] dukk 2 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure Cargo can automatically fix the error.

[–] hharas 7 points 2 years ago

Common Rust W