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  It is just a typo.
The compiler considers it to be a label.

Perfectly legitimate.



Yep. Not particularly baffling in the context of a puzzle, but I could definitely see that as being a pretty fun typo to debug.

Although I'd think the syntax highlighting would typically be a little less misleading...




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