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From:
Piers Cawley
Date:
August 21, 2002 00:32
Subject:
Re: Son of (-ugene's Cantor
Message ID:
84n0rgoek5.fsf@despairon.bofh.org.uk
Andrew.Savige@ir.com writes:

> En op 18 augustus 2002 sprak Keith Ivey (KI):
> > One more stroke sh?aved:
> > -l $_=$"x2**pop;s'$'/\\',print,s/(?<=\\)../$&^aD^n8/egwhile+s\^ \\
> 
> I thought it was impossible to have the last word
> in a golf conversation with Ton, Eugene and Mtv.
> Yet I think Keith has just done it.
> 
> Keith, since modesty prevented you making the obvious aesthetic
> improvement of changing aD to KI (Keith Ivey), I am pleased
> to make it as a mark of respect for your rare achievement.
> 
> -l $_=$"x2**pop;s'$'/\\',print,s/(?<=\\)../$&^KI^D5/egwhile+s\^ \\

Tee hee.

  -l $_=$"x2**pop;s'$'/\\',print,s/\\../$&^PC1^PLM/egwhile+s\^ \\

I *thought* that lookbehind looked a little too long...

-- 
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?

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