... Note to new readers: This answer is old and and not terribly practical - it's just "clever" because it uses Array stuff to get String things done. When I wrote "less process" I definitely meant "less code" because, as others have noted in subsequent answers, it...

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...In the 5th edition spec the requirement was added to support a simplified (and slightly incorrect) ISO-8601 (also see What are valid Date Time Strings in JavaScript?). But other than that, there was no requirement for what Date.parse / new Date(string) should accept other than that they had to accep...

...e method defined on List (though it could be the object of the same name), and :+= is probably the method defined on various Buffer classes. So, let's see them. Keywords/reserved symbols There are some symbols in Scala that are special. Two of them are considered proper keywords, while others are...

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... Actually, the four x86 instructions bt, bts, btr and btc can address single bits! – fredoverflow Jan 7 '11 at 16:07 ...

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