Rune in a sentence as a noun

Not quite the same thing, but I'm sure a lot of people here could and maybe even still can read the Ultima rune font...

Strings and streams as collections: String is a collection of runes - you can get the rune at an index fine. The latter is just wrong - A stream is not byte addressable by nature.

Indeed, in fact that's why rune has been added to the language little more than 6 months ago. Now that rune is used instead of int for representing unicode code points, int can be extended to 64 bit.

Julia uses the same strategy, but indexing an utf8 string returns the rune rather than the byte. If you try to get a byte in the middle of a rune representation, it raises an error.

Yes - using our gonad rune, semsig or ;~. If you are a sophisticated professor type and understand monads, gonads may seem real familiar to you.

A new mechanic, runes, was introduced, and they became the new currency. However, to my knowledge no single rune type rose to dominate the others and claim true currency status, so the current market is a bit more muddled.

> Strike the first rune upon the engine's casing employing the chosen wrench. Its tip should be anointed with the oil of engineering using the proper incantation when the auspices are correct. Strike the second rune upon the engine's casing employing the arc-tip of the power-driver. If the second rune is not good, a third rune may be struck in like manner to the first.

Rune definitions

noun

any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance"