I think the golfers among us should pool our efforts (after the rowdy, cut-throat competition ends, of course!) to amass a list of common -- or would that be uncommon? -- golfing techniques. While participating in a round on PerlMonks.org, I used
rand>$f?Y:X instead of the error-producing rand<$f?X:Y which must be rewritten as rand()<$f?X:Y So I save two characters. Of course, the command-line options come into play and all. I'd appreciate it if all the contestants of this competition showed what drivers, putters, and wedges they used to squeeze every last yard out of Perl. I've got a trick or two up my sleeve. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 **
