I’d still like to understand this better, but part of my problem ended up being a terminal issue. The following gist at least shows what I was going for: https://gist.github.com/ckhrysze/76ece39ad6a0c4c2c55e
Talk about a rabbit hole, I actually read the article linked in the tweet (The string type is broken ) and found not only much better examples, but that someone posted that elixir already gets basically all of them correct.
