I'm not sure "powerful" is the right word here, it's more a matter of "what certain people are used to". If you want a counter or whatever, you can use a tuple

I'm not sure "powerful" is the right word here, it's more a matter of "what certain people are used to". If you want a counter or whatever, you can use a tuple to give yourself multiple accumulators. You could argue it's uglier, but I wouldn't necessarily agree. It's something that is easy to get used to if you remove the "but I'd rather just do it this way" mindset.