purely dysfunctional catgirl

You may know about the following completely normal behaviour in javascript from the excellent talk by Gary Bernhardt entitled "wat":

js> {} + []
0
js> {} - []
-0
js> [] - {}
NaN
js> [] + {}
"[object Object]" 

Enough about languages that are definitely not haskell^[1], let's talk about nix

» nix repl
Welcome to Nix 2.11.0. Type :? for help.

nix-repl> f = a: a

what if someone changes their name in marriage and then their partner changes their entire name for fun

what is the documentation? do marriage certificates get reissued? here, at least, birth certificates do (!). if they were, you could create yourself a dangling pointer of a name, only provable with your partner's name change certificate 🤔