At the risk of being pedantic, not exactly

You are right. I should have been more explicit.

The algorithm is a binary encoding of the ordinal values of the characters based on the accumulated level of recursion. For example the letter "J" is encoded as follows: 
    [ [[[[]]], [[]]], [[[]], []], [[]] ]

    Adding brackets to highlight the nesting of the arrayrefs:    
    [ ([ ([[[ ]]]) , ([[ ]])) ]),    ([ ([[ ]]) , ([ ]) ]),    ([ ([ ]
+) ])  ]
             4          2                  2        1               1
    
    This gives:
    
    = 2**(4+2) +2**(2+1) +2**(1)

    = 2**(6) +2**(3) +2**(1)
    
    = 1001010b
    
    = 74
    
    = ord('J');

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Clever and artistic. ;-)

John.
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Brace For This by jmcnamara
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