Here's another way to think of the inspiration for the article. You're creating a file to use as input to another computer program (in this case, rustc). Your t

Here's another way to think of the inspiration for the article. You're creating a file to use as input to another computer program (in this case, rustc). Your text file contains the ascii strings 'a', and '\n'. The rustc computer, when reading the text file, reads the corresponding byte sequences - 39, 97, 39, and 39, 92, 110, 39, respectively. The first byte sequence contains the 97 that you desire, but the second sequence does not contain a 10. Yet, rustc somehow knows to generate a 10 from 39, 92, 110, 39. How?