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> Elixir-String':upcase(<<"fin">>)

Oh great! That is neat.

> This is extremely important, because it allows you to create conveniences around nil, like the operators && and ||.

Ok, I understand now. Thanks for explaining.

BTW great work on Elixir. It is shaping up to be a really fantastic language and BEAM VM is too good not to be shared with other languages ;-)



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