Not a question, just seems like a nice distraction for this sleep deprived monk.
Testing out a code snippet in the debugger today, only a cup or two shy of my caffeine requirements, I tried this:
DB<1> x ord('a'..'g')
0 49
...which I recognize as not being correct, but wondered about the return value, 49. Immediately I fixed it like this:
DB<2> x map {ord} 'a'..'g'
0 97
1 98
2 99
3 100
4 101
5 102
6 103
But I wondered where 49 came from. Then it hit me:
DB<3> x chr(ord('a'..'g'))
0 1
Which made me think of this:
DB<4> x chr(ord(()=('a'..'g')))
0 7
Bonus ++points for guessing what ord is up to here =)
-QM
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