Andrew.Savige@ir.com writes: > 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. Harrumph. If you're going to do that, at least do it accurately. -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite." -- Jane Austen?Thread Previous | Thread Next