">&apos;powerup&apos;</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">then</span>
    <span class="hljs-comment">-- Code to handle the rest of the collisions...</span>

  <span class="hljs-keyword">end</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">end</span>
</code></pre>
<p>Let&apos;s find a better way!</p>
<h2 id="binary-operations">Binary operations</h2>
<p>Back in <a href="01-00-programming-basics.html">1.0 - Programming basics</a> we discussed <em>operations</em>&#x2013; how to operate on strings with equality (<code>==</code>)