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    1 day ago

    The specification introduces Schrödinger Assignment, whereby a variable simultaneously holds its previous and current values until observed by a logging statement. Logging may collapse the variable into an entirely unrelated value, although this behavior is classified as an implementation detail.

    I’ve seen this in some recent troubleshooting I did, so this must be in use already