[erlang-questions] Strings as Lists
Richard Carlsson
richardc@REDACTED
Fri Feb 15 23:17:56 CET 2008
David Mercer wrote:
> Out of curiosity, besides as an academic exercise and a point of debate,
> what is the practical use of reversing a string? I've been programming for
> a quarter century and am having trouble remembering when I last needed to
> reverse a string. Search? yes; compare? yes; substitute? yes; modify? yes.
> Just can't think of when I've needed to reverse a string. Is there some
> common protocol that requires you to send Unicode strings in reverse order
> or something?
Well, sometimes you do need to trick certain imps to go back to the
dimension they came from. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Mxyzptlk)
Apart from that, there is not much real use for reversed strings.
drahciR\
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