| 11 Dec 2025 |
 helle (just a stray cat girl) | and this can go as simple as "well, Python has like at least 3 string formatting mini languages, of which 2 are relevant to this day" | 21:23:22 |
 Rutile (rootile) | I'd just explain it as "has to be a letter at first, then any amount of word characters (letter or digit) and might include a hyphen; everything else requires wrapping in an ident string.
| 21:23:29 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | like that one gave us no end of headaches | 21:23:32 |
 Charles | variable names are a subset of identifiers | 21:23:53 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | (we TA'ed at uni extensively and cowrote some courses) | 21:24:08 |
| Charles | nix doesn't have functions distinct from variables or types though so in nix's case the sets are equal | 21:24:09 |
 rosssmyth | horrifying | 21:25:19 |
| Charles | yeah lol i'm very surprised that works | 21:25:42 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | check the Nix iceberg for more horrors | 21:25:45 |
