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How this plays out in reality:
"This line at this character is giving me a syntax error... I'll just delete and rewrite it, maybe there's a stray whitespace. Oh, it runs now. Weird. Whatever."
While I imagine this is typically true, I once spent a couple hours on something like this.
spoken like someone who hasn't been bitten by codepoints before
Or you would spot the changed line in git immediately and revert it