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turned out to be a semicolon
The tests wouldn't even run of that was the issue, pretty sure (depends on the language I suppose)
fun situations can arise when you write , instead of ; For those not in the know, in c++ the comma operator evaluates the left expression, discards the value, then evaluates the right expression and returns the value. if you now have a a situation like this
i has a completely different value, since it actually uses the return value of printf instead
And people give Python shit for significant whitespace 😂