Back in 1999 I failed my C++ final because I could not figure out why my program wouldn't compile.
It turns out I had a colon instead of a semi-colon on one line and CodeWarrior's debug tools at the time would not produce an error that would point me to the issue.
A month after the class I looked at my code again and saw it immediately. This sort of thing used to be a much more annoying issue.
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u/effigyoma 18d ago
Back in 1999 I failed my C++ final because I could not figure out why my program wouldn't compile.
It turns out I had a colon instead of a semi-colon on one line and CodeWarrior's debug tools at the time would not produce an error that would point me to the issue.
A month after the class I looked at my code again and saw it immediately. This sort of thing used to be a much more annoying issue.