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

submitted 1 year ago by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 year 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@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a well designed compiler.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Cargo can automatically fix the error.

[–] fidodo 2 points 1 year ago

I think the better solution would be to have a linter auto fix it on save.

[–] hharas@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Common Rust W