From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-20T08:45:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Character Code

On 2002.07.20, GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> wrote:
> 
> `?;' is a Fixnum literal, represents ascii code of char `;'. 

?x being a shortcut for Fixnum literal is cool, but what an
incredible opportunity for code obfuscation!  :-)

This is legitimate Ruby:  "?;??;:?;"

    irb(main):001:0> ?;??;:?;
    59

Heh.

-- Dossy

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