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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
December 5, 2001 01:38
Subject:
Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse
Message ID:
20011205043832.J14333@blackrider
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:06:01PM -0800, Brad Greenlee wrote:
> What's really stumping me is that there has to be a shorter solution for
> wc.pl (mine is 23), but I haven't been able to get past the need for printf
> (at least, not for a shorter solution). Has anyone managed to do it without
> it?

I'm down to 21 using printf and you're probably having the same
problem I was.

Technically speaking, my solution is cheating as it relies on
something you're explicitly not supposed to rely on.


> I also vote that we close this soon and unveil the winners. I have a life to
> get on with.

Yeah, we're all itching to show off our code.


-- 

Michael G. Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl Quality Assurance	    <perl-qa@perl.org>	       Kwalitee Is Job One
    And God was pleased.
    And Dog was happy and wagged his tail.
    And Adam was greatly improved.
    And Cat did not care one way or the other.
	-- http://www.catsarefrommars.com/creationist.htm

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