Strings as Lists

Most list operations work directly on strings. Functions like `reverse`, `where`, `distinct`, `take`, and `skip` return a new string when given a string.

"hello" | reverse | print
"abracadabra" | distinct | print
"hello world" | where ? != "l" | print

You can use `chars` to explicitly split a string into a character list, but often you don't need to — the pipeline handles it.

"banana"
	| chars
	| group_by ?
	| map pt -> "{pt[0]}: {len pt[1]}"
	| print

String interpolation uses `{expr}` inside strings. Any expression works inside the braces.

let name = "Sloplang"
let ver = 1
print "Welcome to {name} v{ver}!"
print "2 + 2 = {2 + 2}"

Parsing utilities make it easy to extract data from text — great for Advent of Code style problems.

let data = "got 3 apples and -2 oranges"
data | ints | print

let csv = "10,20,30"
csv | split "," | map int | sum | print