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//Let it be known that on May 25th, 2012, a single missing semicolon on the below line caused nearly eight hours of confusion and grief.

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  • 3
    Whats the big problem with semi colons?

    Doesn't the compiler pick it up?
  • 3
    @spl0 It was a rails controller, so it was just erroring out with a vague, unhelpful message on loading the application.
  • 3
    @spl0 it was also, upon further inspection, not a semi-colon, but rather an underscore. Oops! My memory is probably why I forgot it in the first place...
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