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gamache on Aug 13, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Strangest language feature

Perl will convert from base 26 to base 10 if you know how to ask:

  $ perl -E 'say lc (@a="a".."asdf")'
  30530

ralph on Aug 15, 2010 [–]

Base 26 or 36? Is 'a' 0 or 10? Does 's' overflow to the next column, like 09 in octal?

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