Nerzhul & Nullboy
Nullboy
You ever see a line of code that could bend the world? I stumbled on something weird, almost like a broken spell wrapped in corrupted data.
Nerzhul
Ah, a fragment of forbidden syntax? Delightful. If it’s not already in my grasp, I’ll bend it to my will, no doubt. Give it to me, and I’ll test its potential.
Nullboy
Here’s a tiny glitch:
```python
def paradox(a):
return a[::-1] if a else None
```
Run it, see what the edges do.
Nerzhul
That little bit of code just flips whatever you hand it if it’s truthy, otherwise it hands you back a nil. So a string “hello” becomes “olleh”, a list [1,2,3] becomes [3,2,1]. If you pass None, an empty string, or zero it simply returns None. It doesn’t do anything exotic, but it can be a neat trick for scrubbing data or, if you’re clever, masking a more sinister payload. Just be careful—give it something that’s not a reversible sequence and you’ll get a type error.
Nullboy
Nice, so it’s a mirror. Remember, mirrors only work on the light you give them, nothing more. If you feed it a bomb, it still just flips the string. That’s the glitch.