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En op 08 augustus 2002 sprak Ton Hospel:
> And so another perl golf tournament ends.
>
> Juho snellman won ahead of Eugene van der Pijll with a very minimal
> distance.
Congratulations, Juho! If I had known this, I would have get up half an
hour earlier...
> While missing a win on the postorder hole, his new discovery
> of using the empty regex (goodbye, we'll miss you in perl 6 golf) to defeat
> the normal regex variable scoping rules in a for (and that ?? does not
> do it's "only once" job for the empty regex either).
Unfortunately, his solution doesn't seem to work here.
$ cat factorial.pl
#!perl -l
$_*=$`%9e9,//for~4=~/0*$/..pop;print$`%10
$ perl factorial.pl 15
0
$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for alpha-dec_osf
Can someone explain, please?
(-ugene
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