From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T18:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Symbolify (#169)

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Wow, so ?? gives you the ASCII code for the ? character.  That's awesome.
Now I understand :)

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Frederick Cheung <
frederick.cheung@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 14 Jul 2008, at 10:25, Paul Smith wrote:
>
>  Is it awful at this point to say that I just don't get it?  How does eval
>> on
>> these curious looking strings end up giving you an interger?
>>
>
> Well you've got multiplication, exponentiation and substraction/unary minus
> (ie you've got addition) and parentheses. So they only thing missing is
> getting some actual numbers to multiply together and so on.
> Try evaluating ??, ?-, ?* etc... in the console :-)
>
> Fred
>
>


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Paul Smith
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