title: Elixir lists interpreted as char lists
body: <p>I'm just starting out with Elixir. I'm writing some tests using ExUnit for simple Enumerable functions that I am implementing myself, without using the standard Enum module.</p>
  
  <p>In my tests I'm finding that whenever I reference the list <code>[7, 8, 9]</code>, once it is printed in in stdout I am seeing the char list <code>'\a\b\t'</code>. Why does this sort of thing happen?</p>