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Piers Cawley wrote: > 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. > Ronald J Kimball wrote: > Why would printing to STDERR warrant a penalty anyway? It should > disqualify the entry entirely. Yes it does disqualify the entry. My fault for not being clear about my previous adjustments. They were not 1-stroke penalties. In one or two cases, I took the liberty of changing "die" to "exit" so that the program did not write to stderr. SantaThread Previous | Thread Next