The Weird and The Wonderful

protected Thing populateThing(DataRow dr)
      {
          Thing result = new Thing();
          result.Id = int.Parse(dr["Id"].ToString());

' count for history
' just to make it look like somethings happening
If m_bHistImportRunning Then
    m_lHistCounter = m_lHistCounter + 79
    Me.lblHistCounter.Text = m_lHistCounter.ToString
End If

data {
  a % 1
  b % 2 
}
expression - a + b

function {
  # ~ allows the function to take unlimited arguments as it just represents the data:
  arguments - ~
  function "
    # if item 1 is null return item 0
    [isNull ~1] ?
      ~0 :
      (
        # clone the input [~ is everything]
        data = [data.clone ~];
        # remove item 0
        [data.remove data "~0"];
        # and call back... with ... a ... single ... argument
        max = [max data];
        ~0 > max ?
          ~0 :
          max
      )
  "
}