List questions

[Patrick Logan]

Mickael Remond writes:
 > 
 > I was very surprised with the result of the following commands :
 > 
 > 19> [40].
 > "("
 > 20> [45].
 > "-"
 > 21> [60].
 > "<"
 > 22> [80].
 > "P"

Those of us raised on late night TV in America in the 1970s will
simply quote:

  "It's a dessert topping *and* a floor wax!"

What this means for Erlang is a list of ASCII integers is a list of
numbers *and* a string!

Now where did I put my Bass-O-Matic?

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Patrick Logan    patrickdlogan@REDACTED