Unintended Consequences of Apex and Visualforce

VisualForce and Apex use semicolons, and the Salesforce.com user forums software interprets semicolos as the eyes in a smiley face. Oops.
When you are struggling with syntax and you run across sample code that look like this, it kinda feels like getting kicked in the gut by a clown.

August 14th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
A scary clown.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
really feel they should tweak the SF forums to not interpert semi-colons now that Apex and VF is getting more traction.
Seems a simple fix
Lal
August 29th, 2008 at 5:32 am
FYI, That’s what the “SRC” button is for in the tool bar of the “New Message” editor on the Salesforce. discussion forums. Click that button and insert your source code, and semi-colons will not be treated as smileys