It's weird how ! denotes side effects when it's allowed in names (Scheme, Ruby) but there isn't a clear equivalent in other languages.
My only theory is that "side effects" is often vague. list-add!, table-drop! and ping! are very different effects.
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Is there a programming equivalent of the strawberry problem, i.e. a specific coding task that LLMs are consistently bad at?
I've been compilation buffers in Emacs recently and I really appreciate the error and warning counts shown in the modeline.
I've added the equivalent feature to deadgrep: it shows result counts! Really useful when you're doing big refactorings.
I'm amused (and kinda surprised) to learn that shells have their own equivalent of blink tags, a blink escape code! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17439482/how-to-make-a-text-blink-in-shell-script
Seems equally annoying, I can't see a good use for it.
