I started a repo to gather a collection of scripts that leverage programing language quirks that cause unexpected behavior. It's just so much fun to see the wheels turning in someone's head when you show them a script like this. Please send in a PR if you feel like you have a great example!

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    A collection of script depicting the strange quirks of programming languages.

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    • Bignums are heap-allocated and not deduplicated, so they cease having the same identity. One day CPython might do the same, but previous attempts have always stalled.

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