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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
December 13, 2001 18:29
Subject:
Re: Sorted Code
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0112132121290.5362-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Dec 14, Alistair.McGlinchy@marks-and-spencer.com said:
>what is the longest piece of perl code $c which is "perl -c" correct with
>the requirement that each character in $c is ord-less than the next one. ie
> &'()-.0123456789>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}
!&'()*+-.0123456789<=>@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}
Note the leading space. I think that's as good as you'll get.
>What's the most useful piece of code you can write with this restriction?
Hah.
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Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/
** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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