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Ironically I have weird OCD where I always assume I made a typo, so I keep deleting and retyping code a few dozen character at a type, often in lines where I see nothing wrong. Over time this has just become something my hands do whenever my brain needs time to think about something else. So in a way I developed natural immunity to said unicode tricks ;)


I think you're not alone. A common error I've noticed is when you make a typo somewhere (that compiles) and copy and paste it in a different place where you have the correctly named symbol. It's often hard to see the typo because the eye fly over the word. So you erase and type it manually.


Hey I do the same!

Only with variables, and almost always when using array indexes that are not 'i' or 'x'.

Sometimes is annoys me, and I've noticed that it's worse when I use CamelCasing and not as bad when i_do_this.




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