How exciting, I get to be the pedant: it’s “stream-of-consciousness,” not “stream-of-conscious.” Conscious is an adjective; there can’t be a stream of it.
On the other hand English is highly imbued with lake of morphological inflection and other explicit lexicalization by grammatical type. So this is really just following the main stream tendency.
I think it's actually the last 10 lines of code, not 12. I just wrote these 10 lines:
Remember A as forty-two
Tell me about A
Remember B as A
Tell me about B
Remember C as B
Tell me about C
Remember D as C
Tell me about D
Remember E as D
Tell me about E
And you can see how it plots the dependencies as a graph on the right, which is kind of neat. But when I add the 11th line:
Remember F as E
You see the graph being turned into a forest with no dependencies, because it has forgotten the root dependency A. Indeed, if you enter "Tell me about A", it will say it does not remember A.
Another neat thing to try is:
Remember x as zero
Remember y as x
Remember x as y
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Through substantivization one can definitely have stream-of-. Think "a stream of blue" or "a stream of the poor".
People often shave off the tail of well-known expressions:
“same difference” → “same diff”
“no big deal” → “no big”
“It’s no big.”
“fair enough” → “fair”
“Fair.”
“good enough” → “good enough” → “good”
“Yeah, that’s good.” (implies good enough)
“I don’t know” → “dunno”
> People often shave off the tail of well-known expressions
Though typically not in writing, that’s more of a speech thing.
Another neat thing to try is:
Fun fact, if you run Python from a command line, with no options, it defaults to such a shell.
On another note, I do not understand how posts make it to the top of the front page with essentially no comments.