Why am I randomly getting ‘\n\a’ as output for the following:
Enum.shuffle(1…10) |> Enum.slice(0…1)
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try typing [7, 10| in the console and You will get ‘\a\n’
but if You type [2,10] You will get [2,10]
somehow, it’s because [7, 10| is equivalent to charlist ‘\a\n’, just not the usual representation.
Have a look at http://elixir-lang.github.io/getting-started/binaries-strings-and-char-lists.html
iex(1)> [7, 7, 7, 10, 10, 10]
'\a\a\a\n\n\n'
iex(2)> [65, 66, 67]
'ABC'
Lots of people get surprised by this…
If elixir can represent a list of int as a list of char, it will, otherwise, it won’t
iex(3)> [65, 66, 67, 200]
[65, 66, 67, 200]
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If you have any questions about the output of something, then put i before it in the shell, such as:
iex> i '\n\a'
And hit enter and see what appears. 
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