Second hand anecdote: In a university C++ class, programming assignments were headed by deducting points for number of compiler errors, once you roughly had all

Second hand anecdote: In a university C++ class, programming assignments were headed by deducting points for number of compiler errors, once you roughly had all the pieces. So students would write lots of code that roughly looks relevant to the problem and then put a semicolon on the main() function declaration to make it look like there was only one compiler error :-)