[erlang-questions] a surprising atom

[Bob Ippolito]

Why is that surprising? Is it any more surprising than this?

1> list_to_atom([0]).
'\000'
2> list_to_atom([255]).
?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Anthony Shipman <
> wrote:
> Eshell V5.6.4  (abort with ^G)
> 1> X = ''.
> ''
> 2> is_atom(X).
> true
>
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