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From:
Ronald J Kimball
Date:
December 3, 2001 12:48
Subject:
Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse
Message ID:
20011203154816.F486799@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:17:33PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Andrew.Savige@ir.com writes:
> 
> > * I always chortle at Piers creative-in-the-extreme
> >   entries. He may claim a lower score.
> 
> Too bloody right he will. You've just moved the goalposts again. All
> of a sudden printing to stderr is worth a 4 stroke penalty, when last
> time it was only worth one. Yes, I know that head.pl dies. But only
> after it's passed the test. And if I change it so that it doesn't die
> that brings my total to 92, not 93.
> 

Why would printing to STDERR warrant a penalty anyway?  It should
disqualify the entry entirely.

Ronald

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