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5 points by akkartik 2753 days ago | link | parent

Congratulations, you've run into at-strings, one of Arc's more awkward features.

Prior discussions: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10245; http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10485; http://arclanguage.org/item?id=18715

Interesting idea to quote a string. I'd somehow never thought of that!



3 points by prestonbriggs 2752 days ago | link

Got it, thanks.

I guess the quote idea came from me thinking that the strings were being evaluated. My untrained mind thought "strings evaluate to themselves", but apparently not. So I used the single quote to prevent evaluation.

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2 points by akkartik 2752 days ago | link

And it worked! Nicely done.

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