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05:31
@CarlLange Frankly the diagram is a bit of a cheat in my opinion since the second box is very much the "magic happens here" part... :I
 
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17:29
@kirma Oh, totally, it wasn't a great example. To be honest it's not great at ascii art as output, but it does do a great job of parsing it as input:

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