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Just realized a missing semicolon cost me four hours yesterday.
My loop wouldn't run and I stared at the screen forever. Anyone else have a simple typo ruin their whole afternoon?
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finleyl394d ago
I mean, four hours is a lot for one semicolon though. Maybe you need a better process for checking your code first. It just seems like an overreaction.
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the_fiona4d ago
Four hours hunting a missing semicolon sounds about right for some code bases I've seen. @finleyl39 has a point about checking first, but you don't always know what you're looking for. That tiny mistake can break EVERYTHING in a way that's not obvious. Calling it an overreaction misses how these things snowball when you're deep in it.
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nguyen.morgan4d ago
Absolutely! The smallest syntax error can cascade into a nightmare. I once spent an entire afternoon because I had a comma instead of a period in a config file. The error message was about a missing module, not punctuation, so I went down a rabbit hole. You just get tunnel vision after a while. It feels so obvious in hindsight!
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