How this plays out in reality:
“This line at this character is giving me a syntax error… I’ll just delete and rewrite it, maybe there’s a stray whitespace. Oh, it runs now. Weird. Whatever.”
Or you would spot the changed line in git immediately and revert it
While I imagine this is typically true, I once spent a couple hours on something like this.
#DEFINE TRUE (__LINE__ % 100)
The real Satan is always in the comments
Don’t languages generally tell you about potential look-alike characters specifically for this reason?
The code editor I use would say something like syntax error ‘;’, expected ‘;’ and underline the character in red. That might lead to some head scratching as apparently the Greek character is literally the same, but with a different Unicode value.
