Pure Evil

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Any remotely capable IDE will immediately show you what, and where, the problem is.

it would still be confusing why all semicolons are highlighted

VSCode has a special case for this

That means that detection was added explicitly because this prank was done enough that it was worth it to add.

The reason is in fact not only because of this exact symbol, but because people tried to change program’s behavior in a malicious way by replacing legitimate code with same looking symbols.