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More confusion for recruiters (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 207 points 4 months ago (2 children)

all lines not terminated by a single space are comments

[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago

There's a special place in hell for you

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also each line starts with a semicolon and you have to escape spaces in strings using a double forward slash

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I realized a while ago that there's nothing stopping me from writing rust like this

;println!("This is great")
;println!("I think everyone should write rust like this")
;println!("Probably works in most languages that use semicolons")
;

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also a spicial place in hell for you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Can we add the comefrom function too?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Nasm programmers probably think that is old code that you commented out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

hope you don't forget the semicolon on a line by itself at the end (except in functions where you want to return the value of the last expression)