It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

Programmers can be lazy.

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.