*sou escalado para apitar o primeiro jogo da copa do mundo*
*entro*
*expulso 3 jogadores na estreia*
*gasto meu inglês surpreendendo os sul-africanos*
*saio*
Computers read code from top to bottom, one line at a time.
If you make a mistake early (like forgetting a } or "), the computer doesn’t always notice immediately. It keeps reading, assuming things will make sense later.
By the time it reaches line 265, the code structure is so broken that the computer finally says:
“I don’t understand this anymore.”
So it reports the error where it got confused, not where you actually messed up.
That’s why the real bug is often many lines above the error message.
One tiny mistake early can break hundreds of lines later and that’s normal.