Re: [FWP] Love & Hate shenanigans

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@datenrevision.de>]

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> However, there are some nice ways in which ASCII characters behave in
> XOR operations.  In particular, XORing a letter with a space flips the
> case of that letter, so ("foo" ^ " ") eq "Foo".

And capital letters XORed with '@' give the corresponding control character
(this algorithm is used, I believe, internally in Perl to convert "\cD" type
representation to the control character, and is responsible for having "\c?"
have an ord() larger than ord('?')).

Cheers,
Philip
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