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On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:49:33PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: > Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.Thayer.dartmouth.edu> writes: > > > Why would printing to STDERR warrant a penalty anyway? It should > > disqualify the entry entirely. > > On what grounds? Nothing was mentioned when the challenge was set > except that we weren't supposed to use die to output stuff, which is > emphatically not what I'm doing. > "Similarly, your programs must properly newline-terminate everything they write (they always write to stdout)." In my mind, the idea of perl golf is to write code with certain semantics in as few characters as possible, by changing the syntax. If you change the semantics to get fewer characters, then you're solving a different problem. RonaldThread Previous | Thread Next