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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What are you writing your code in? Windows notepad? How the fuck do you not see the semicolon missing?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

because semicolons are tiny characters that oftenhave to be appended to the end of lines (precisely the worst place for them to be easily visible, since they'll blend in with the previous character)

whitespace meanwhile is very easy to notice that it's missing, as i'm sure you noticed when reading the above sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

In both cases, you press compile and the compiler goes "you missed a whitespace/semicolon HERE"