JavaScript's ${{ name }} looks like a Mustache template but parses as an object literal inside a tagged template literal. The pun behind Helicone's prompt tag.

20 points•BinRoo•5 days ago•8 comments•

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quixoticaxolotl3 days ago
Note that the Shakespeare quote in the beginning is an example of antimetabole, not a pun.
malfist3 days ago
Any joke that takes five screens of text to explain is not the least bit funny
doebler3 days ago
> Rarely can you swap two words to form a correct grammatically sentence, yet he played with words like a magician.

Polish poet Sep-Szarzyński was an absolute master of this. Of course it helps that word order in Slavic languages is flexible, yet still. Hos poems are mind-boggling, to the point of being incomprehensible, yet completely gramatically correct.

efilife3 days ago
What's your favorite poem of his?
hyperhello3 days ago
Good job, I definitely felt punished.
mrlonglong3 days ago
Terrible.

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