You’re fucking diabolical
#DEFINE TRUE (__LINE__ % 100)
The real Satan is always in the comments
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.”
While I imagine this is typically true, I once spent a couple hours on something like this.
spoken like someone who hasn’t been bitten by codepoints before
Or you would spot the changed line in git immediately and revert it
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.
I’m talking about when you try to run/compile code, not in the editor.
