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My earliest "gnarly bug" experience was that the "set flag" operations in ZZT are limited to 8 flags, but it doesn't throw an error if you exceed that limit; it just wraps to the zeroth flag. It took me a full year to figure it out as a ten-year old.

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> It took me a full year to figure it out as a two-year old.

o_O

Edit: i see you corrected it now, but with hn you never know..

Well, it was limited to 8 flags.

As a computing native, I mix up my 2s and 10s all the time /s

warms my heart to see this so high. that summer I was 10 and discovered ZZT and the surprirsingly robust editor and language was really where it all began for me tech-wise. and I was just thinking about it two days ago

I joke that I learned how to SmallTalk before I learned how to small-talk.

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