What does the unary question mark (?) operator do?

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It returns a single character string. It is the shortest way to write a single-character string literal. Use it when you want to define a lot of single-character strings. It is a heritage from Ruby <1.9, where it used to return the ASCII code for that character. I don’t understand what you mean by “break the language orthogonality”.

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