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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also, it should turn an error into an empty but successful call. /s

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Calling reverse() on a function should return its inverse

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
isprime.reverse(True)
// outputs 19 billion prime numbers. Checkmate, atheists.
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's a just a joke, but I feel like that actually says something pretty profound about duck typing, and how computable it actually is.