I agree. I almost always put
semicolons after my
looping statements. Luckily,
compilers are
smart enough to tell me just how
brain dead I am for making the same
typing mistake about 50 times in my
program. However, my biggest problem isn't the dread
one character error problem. I usually rename my
variables accidentally in my head, and it usually takes me
hours to figure out exactly what it was that I did wrong.
For example, in
Perl (note that the
variables are usually not on the same
screen):
$num_to_start = 5;
while ($num_to_start)
{
print $number_to_start++;
}