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\_/| |||| ||\- ... the function ':', initiating a chain-reaction: each ':' will start two more.
| | |||| |\- Definition ends now, to be able to run ...
| | |||| \- End of function-block
| | |||\- disown the functions (make them a background process), so that the children of a parent
| | ||| will not be killed when the parent gets auto-killed
| | ||\- ... another copy of the ':'-function, which has to be loaded into memory.
| | || So, ':|:' simply loads two copies of the function, whenever ':' is called
| | |\- ... and pipe its output to ...
| | \- Load a copy of the function ':' into memory ...
| \- Begin of function-definition
\- Define the function ':' without any parameters '()' as follows: