The story behind Acme::Bleach and its many cousins:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=967004
Feedback and anecdotes welcome.
Thanks,
/-\
I wonder if --$| and $|--, very popular in golf, and described
by japhy as the magical flip flop variable at:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2002/01/msg1367.html
qualifies as a secret operator?
/-\
[ ~~ vs. scalar ]
The ~~ secret operator is old hat, good ol' inchworm:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/secret-perl-operators/#inchworm
BooK's innovation is to add and +0 to the end of it.
BTW, in addition to inchworm-on-a-stick ~- to subtract one,
I often use the converse -~ to add one
This node:
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=412464
claims that the first JAPH was simply (note the punctuation):
print Just another Perl hacker,
This ancient JAPH was penned in 1988 by a Portland Oregon hacker,
currently sobering up after his wild 50th birthday party.
/-\
- Original
--- Andy_Bach wrote:
Question came up elsewhere and via:
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/HT/Dell/DellNumb.htm
we found Dell uses base 36 for its Service tags. You need the decimal for
the automated phone access so somebody came up w/:
map {$s+=(/\d/?$_:(ord()-55))*(36**$i++)}
José Castro wrote:
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator,
can anyone tell me about other secret operators?
Let's not forget the Ton Hospel high-precedence decrement
operator ~- invented during a golf tournament (anyone remember
which one?).
IIRC, Ton's ~- invention
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote:
So we have :
symbolnicknameRole
--
= spaceship documented operator
0+venus numification
}{eskimo greeting END{} in
#!perl -lp
/ /;$A{$'}.=$.$`}for(map{s}.}9-$}e;$_}sort
map{9-$A{$_}=~y. ...sprintf %-10s:$A{$_},$_}keys%A){
Interesting sub-problem is shortest way to space-fill the CPAN ID:
sprintf%-10s,$_
pack A10,$_
uc($_^$x10)
The last works because CPAN IDs match /^[A-Z]{4,9}$/.
Replacing the
Rick Klement wrote:
And replacing one map with a sort, taking advantage of the fact that
in 5.8, sort is stable, saves 10 strokes:
#!perl -lp
/ /;$a{pack A10,$'}.= $`}for(sort{$b-$a}map$a{$_}=~y/ //.
$_:$a{$_},sort keys a){
Very nice. Hmm, if:
map sort [SORT BLOCK]map is the
The Phalanx project top 100 CPAN modules has just been published:
http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/distros.html
To get a report sorted by most prolific author, I wrote this
little program (using a good ol' GR-Transform):
#!perl -lp
/ /;$A{$'}.=$.$`}for(map{s}.}9-$}e;$_}sort
map{9-$A{$_}=~y.
Perhaps I am posting this to wrong list, but that has become the norm
lately. :-)
I noticed on this page:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52234
titled a guaranteed-stable sort with the decorate-sort-undecorate
idiom (aka Schwartzian transform)
Ton Hospel wrote:
With a little more effort by mtve and me this becomes:
sub
[EMAIL PROTECTED](abs||n.o,bottle.sx!!++$_,of,beer),on,the,wall]}print
@{+b},[EMAIL PROTECTED],\nTake one down, pass it around,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for-pop||-99..-1
Of the 515 languages represented at
Ian Phillipps sprak:
I just typed in 'Eugene' to check.
eugene is the fastest and most pleasant
eugene is about the size of a dog
eugene is devastated
But, most relevantly,
eugene is right
In my experience, Eugene (and Ton) are always right.
I just noticed that Yitzchak's email
(-ugene sprak:
Andrew Savige schreef:
Aristotle golfed:
$_=$x;@lines=(/^.*/mg)x+length;
Against my better judgment, I will have a go at golfing this:
$_=$x;@l=(/^.*/mg)x/./s
This clobbers $_. Not nice for the rest of the program. Correct is:
{local$_=$x;@l=(/^.*/mg)x
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
Sigh. I'd call that a bug if someone hadn't gone to the trouble to
test for it and document it. (Indeed, I see a bug report out there:
#6653, was 20010327.008.) So do something like:
my @lines;
chomp(my $tmp=$x);
@lines = split /\n/,$tmp,-1 or @lines=
John Douglas Porter wrote:
@lines = length($x) ? $x=~/^(.*)$/mg : ();
^ ^^
unnecessary
This is a little faster:
@lines = length($x) ? $x=~/^.*/mg : ();
/-\
http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings
- Send some online love
John Douglas Porter:
@lines = length($x) ? $x=~/^(.*)$/mg : ();
@lines = ($x=~/^.*/mg) x !!length($x);
@lines = ($x=~/^.*/mg) x ($x ne );
This line of play looks promising for golf.
/-\
http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings
- Send some online love this Valentine's Day.
Aristotle:
@lines = ($x=~/^.*/mg) x !!length($x);
$_=$x;@lines=(/^.*/mg)x+length;
*whistle* *whistle* *red card* *disqualified*
multiplying by length (x+length) will not give the desired result here;
it must be boolean (0 or 1 only).
/-\
http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo!
Aristotle golfed:
$_=$x;@lines=(/^.*/mg)x+length;
Against my better judgment, I will have a go at golfing this:
$_=$x;@l=(/^.*/mg)x/./s
/-\
http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings
- Send some online love this Valentine's Day.
Aristotle wrote:
my @lines = split m[\Q$/], $x, -1;
This one produces one too many elements in the array.
/-\
http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings
- Send some online love this Valentine's Day.
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
chomp(my $tmp=$x); my @lines=split /\n/,$tmp,-1
This one fails for the case $x = \n; @lines should contain one
empty element, but the code above contains none.
/-\
http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings
- Send some online love this Valentine's
To clarify, you may assume that lines in string are separated by
\n but any solution must pass the following edge cases:
1) empty string: @lines should contain zero elements
2) string of \n : @lines should contain one empty element
3) trailing empty lines should be retained
4) you may not
To convert the other way is simpler and I'm struggling to find
alternatives to my original join solution. The only edge case I
can think of is empty array @lines. You may assume that no item
of @lines contains \n. Benchmark program follows.
use strict;
use Benchmark;
my @lines = (
,
This is
I am interested to learn the fastest and shortest way to convert a
textfile-like string to an array and back again (chopping newlines).
Test program follows. Improvements (golf or speed) welcome.
/-\
use strict;
my $x = 'FLAMING_OSTRICHES';
This is first test line
This is 2nd
And 3rd
Text::Balanced is now a standard Perl 5.8.0 module, which seems
a good thing to me (though I have not used it before). Anyway, it
seems a handy tool for a chore I have parsing a configuration file.
I suppose I might use a bigger Parse::RecDescent hammer for this job,
or do it in some other way.
Just a bit more hero-worshippin' in the form of a revitalized T-shirt
design produced by a specialized wrestler noggin enlarger algorithm.
Freude,
/-\
--
#!/usr/bin/perl
('')=~(
'('.'?'.'{'.
('['^'+').('['^
I was so impressed by the YAPC::Europe naked arm wrestling:
http://astray.com/tmp/yapcbits3.mov
I decided to EyeDrops it.
Save all text between below as naked.pl (say), then run with:
perl naked.pl
Enjoy,
/-\
--
En op 27 oktober 2002 sprak David H Adler:
I think I've got better still photos of it, if you want them. :-)
Oh, that would be great. Please let me know the URL or send
them to me personally, whichever is easier for you. I will have
to first go out and buy a pair of ultra-strong sun-glasses
En op 15 oktober 2002 sprak sthoenna:
(bollocks[3,2,1,0], $want) = map scalar reverse, split ' ', reverse($in),
5
my ($want,bollocks) = /(.*?)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*$/g;
/-\
En op 15 oktober 2002 sprak the alien:
/\S+/g;//;//;//;// # $` now contains required string
No. $` contains a gratuitous trailing space.
/-\
En op 15 oktober 2002 sprak sthoenna:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:17:09 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my ($want,@bollocks) = /(.*?)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*$/g;
g?
Oops, I'm Mr Magoo. Again.
(For those interested in golf history, google for mrmagoo.pl golf).
/-\
En op 12 juli 2002 sprak Csaba Ráduly:
$_=reverse qw' r e k c a h x l r e P x r e h t o n a x t s u J ' t n i r
p;y y xyzz y;eval;
Suggestions for stylistic improvements ?
s;;reverse qw s' r e k c a h x l r e P x r e h t o n a x t g u J ' t n i r
p s;ex;y y gxyzs y;eval;
/-\ndrew
You didn't think I would stop at 128 did you?
To the seven main options:
perl camel.pl normal camel
perl camel.pl q quine (program prints itself)
perl camel.pl m mirror (camel looking in the mirror)
perl camel.pl i inverted camel
perl camel.pl u
Some brilliant golfing from Mtv Europe and Ronald J Kimball has
allowed me to increase the number of camels from 32 to 128.
There are now seven options:
perl camel.pl normal camel
perl camel.pl q quine (program prints itself)
perl camel.pl m mirror (camel looking in the
En op 20 maart 2002 sprak Csaba Ráduly:
If the outputs of the above are identical, does this count
as a quine ?
Let's call it an 'accidental' quine. My main purpose was simply
to display Buffy's face. :)
I am not a quine expert, but I suspect most people would view reading
your own source as
En op 28 februari 2002 sprak /-\ndrew:
k.pl (82 characters):
open 0;chop,$==length,$=$-or$-=$=for@a=0;
print map{$x($--length).reverse.$/}@a
I just whittled k.pl to 79:
open$[;chop,($==y===c)$-($-=$=)for:=0;
print$x-(y---c-$-).reverse.$/for:
Apart from reducing the stroke count, it is vital
En op 20 maart 2002 sprak Ronald J Kimball:
No other topic swamps all other traffic on this mailing list.
It is quite reasonable that if a specific sub-topic appeals
to only some of the subscribers but accounts for most of the
traffic on a list, that sub-topic should be spun off into
its own
En op 20 maart 2002 sprak Abigail:
The majority of the people programming Perl don't even know
anything about Japhs, golf or obfuscated Perl. Don't consider
the inbred circle of people on the various mailinglist, clpm,
#perl, and perlmonks as the average Perl programmer. They aren't,
they
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Randal L. Schwartz writes:
: [...] Obfuscated Perl and Golf are both uninteresting to me.
And JAPHs. ;-)
Randal, I am curious, after all these years, are you still
interested in JAPHs?
/-\ndrew
$ 704,000.00
7. Piers Cawley$ 622,720.00
8. Andrew Savige $ 448,000.00
9. Mtv Europe $ 441,040.00
10. Marcus Holland-Moritz $ 432,000.00
11. Keith Calvert Ivey
En op 19 maart 2002 sprak Greg Bacon:
I coined the phrase Perl golf ...
I am curious as to how you came to think of it.
Were you playing a lot of real golf at the time?
En op 19 maart 2002 sprak Greg Bacon:
IMHO, the volume of golf traffic on fwp warrants the
creation of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I
En op 14 maart 2002 sprak Stephen Turner:
Oooh, what fun. We can see all of Andrew's... eccentricities as once.
chop eggs, eat lollipop, (?{'.('`'|'%').('['^'-').('`'|'!')mredo
I missed an obvious improvement of preceding 'chop' with 'karate':
#!/usr/bin/perl -l
sub lolli{$_=pop;/./(print,
En op 14 maart 2002 sprak Bart Lateur:
Don't say you've never heard of cookies.
cookie. US, a small sweet biscuit.
biscuit. Brit, a small unleavened cake.
I apologize for my ignorance, but when I installed Windows,
I asked for English (Oxford) and not English (US),
and so Internet Explorer
En op 14 maart 2002 sprak `/anick:
A first tentative to see what kind of stuff can be done
with that can be found at
http://babyl.dyndns.org/golf/golfers.epl
Cool.
En op 14 maart 2002 sprak `/anick:
My next step is to try to create mock-baseball cards
with scores and
En op 13 maart 2002 sprak `/anick:
And on a semi-related topic, so far the web interface uses
a golfer's email addie as way to confirm his/her identity. But
since a lot of us are on fwp and see each other addie, isn't
that a risk? I mean, if Andrew hadn't been dozens of strokes
ahead
En op 10 maart 2002 sprak Eugene van der Pijll:
Actually, I did look for other solutions; I just could not find them.
I did not try the s///eg within s///eg way, as I was sure that
couldn't work. Earlier, I had tried things like m#___(?{___/./___})___#,
which produced an error message about
En op 10 maart 2002 sprak Dave Hoover:
Reminiscent of my football days, I often find myself jumping
around like a buffoon after discovering a better algorithm.
Already, Perl golf is showing potential as a TV spectator sport.
Imitating the all-conquering Aussie cricket team, I myself indulge
Stephen Turner schreef op 09 maart 2002:
Thanks for all the replies about the history of Perl golf.
One more question: when is the earliest example of a proper
organised competition, rather than just a challenge on a mailing
list or whatever? Are there any before the recent five?
The
En op 08 maart 2002 sprak Eugene van der Pijll:
Of course, some people can do a golf thread all by themselves
in one post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Apr29.072206.5621%40jpl-devvax.jpl.
nasa.gov
En op 04 maart 2002 sprak /-\ndrew:
Oh, the shock and terror of seeing Eugene and
It is clear from recent games that Perl Golf is a sport,
not so different from chess, or real golf for that matter.
There is strategy there, and tactics too -- with tactics
predominant, in my opinion.
I would like to illustrate this sporting aspect of the game
with some examples from recent
Dave Hoover schreef op 08 maart 2002:
But the honor must go to Ton for his herculean 47.53, beating
BoB and 132 other golfers. Congrats Ton! Honorable mention also
goes to Lars Mathiesen for winning the Beginner's category.
I would also like to congratulate Ton and Lars, and pay tribute
to
/-\ndrew schreef op 04 maart 2002:
After seeing the leaderboard this morning, I started hearing
the Jaws theme playing in my head It won't go away, has been
playing all morning Oh, the shock and terror of seeing Eugene
and Karsten swimming in the water right behind me!
/-\ndrew
Rick
Rick Klement schreef op 05 maart 2002:
I hate to break it to you, Andrew, but others consider *you*
to be one of the sharks
/-\ndrew schreef op 05 maart 2002:
When I went to submit it, I noticed Ton Hospel is on 52
Well done, Ton!
Well done, shark Rick too! I see you got to 52
Since Rick is
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Yanick wrote:
Ah, the things one is ready to do to keep his mind away from
a big fat score of 65 that doesn't seem to want to shrink of a
single stroke
Stephen Turner schreef op 3 marchi 2002:
If only there were a POSIX::secretnumber()
I checked that too; we
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, I have been reduced to hanging on to Keith and
Stephen like a leech. :-(
Keith C. Ivey schreef op 4 Marchi 2002:
Looks like the leech has detached itself. You've shot up to
second place, 5 strokes ahead of me. I don't seem to be
getting the
The latest version of Acme::EyeDrops:
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Acme-EyeDrops
contains five face shapes, namely:
larry, damian, merlyn, eugene, buffy2.
A friend of mine asked: Is it possible to produce a 'pure'
(i.e. no leading eval) EyeDrop'ed program that displays
one of these faces
Andrew Savige schreef op 22 februari 2002:
#!/usr/bin/perl -l
[pop=~/.(?{$a=$a*36+(ord(lc$)-9)%39})/g];print$a
why do you need the [] ?
OK, I understand it now. The [] provides the list context
to force iteration of the whole string. For example:
$x = 'abc';
@a=$x=~/.(?{print$})/g;
$x
Ton Hospel schreef op 21 februari 2002:
$\=(30+ord lc)%39+36*$\.$/for pop=~/./g;print
Hey, that's 45! Stephen, are you happy now?
Ton, you are the best golf post-mortem analyst in the world. :)
You did all the hard work, I just moved some chars around.
Eugene van der Pijll schreef op 3
Stephen Turner schreef op 20 februari 2002:
I'm still interested in seeing a real solution less than 46.
But maybe there isn't one.
Since we have had a positive sighting of Eugene whittling at the
RC4 solution, I doubt that it is possible. ;-)
I had visions of reliving Eugene's celebrated
Three more 46-ers:
map$.=36*$.-55+/\d/*7+ord,pop=~/./g;print$..$/spiff:46
map$\=(36*$\-55+/\d/*7+ord).$/,pop=~/./g;printGhost of
Eugene's reverse
map$\=36*$\-55+/\d/*7+ord().$/,pop=~/./g;printGhost of
Two more:
$a=$a*36+(30+ord lc)%39for pop=~/./g;print$a,$/ ton:47
$\=$\*36+(30+ord lc)%39 .$/for pop=~/./g;print ton's ghost:46
$x=$x*36+(-9+ord)%39for split//,lc pop;print$x.$/ albert:49
$\=$\*36+(-9+ord lc)%39 .$/for pop=~/./g;print albert's ghost:46
Now the space after the 39
Ton Hospel schreef op 20 februari 2002:
$\=(30+ord lc)%39+36*$\.$/for pop=~/./g;print
Hey, that's 45! Stephen, are you happy now?
Ton, you are the best golf post-mortem analyst in the world. :)
/-\ndrew
Philip Newton wrote:
Well, existing compilers tend to be slow to implement new
standards such as C99
So for my purposes, standard C is ANSI C i.e. KR 2nd ed.. YMMV.
Interestingly, in this particular case, many vendors are very
*quick* to implement, often implementing before it happened.
Andrew Savige wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl -l
use POSIX;print strtol pop,36
I think this should work, but it prints a spurious trailing zero.
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
RTFM.
strtol String to (long) integer translation. Returns the
parsed number and the number
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:10:17 +0100, F. Xavier Noria wrote:
: What an anti-climax. Utterly boring.
Maybe being a mathematician I am a bit formalist, but the challenge was
to use as few strokes as possible, if you didn't use strtol you lost. If
you didn't want to use strtol as an option you are
Thankyou to Dave and Jerome for running the game and for
their invitation to explain some of my weird entries.
The fwp old-hands may have yawned at my 7918-stroke entry,
but I hope it caused at least a few fwp newbies to remark
What the hell is that? or How the hell does that work?.
Let me
Stephen Turner wrote:
Thanks for the explanation, Andrew. I'm interested to know how
you made the picture of Eugene during your golf competition.
I found the original photo, but how do you turn that into a line
drawing to work your magic on? Do you have to do it by hand?
For that photo, I
Stephen Turner wrote:
In that case, I think there should be a separate leaderboard for
people who didn't use strtol. Just so that I could be only one
stroke off the lead, you understand. :-)
2002/02/11 19:52:29 - 46 - Karsten aka Spifff
map$.=36*$.-55+/\d/*7+ord,pop=~/./g;print$..$/
Though singled out for submitting a whopping 9 entries, I could
not help but notice that specialist obfuscator BooK submitted more.
Luckily for me, however, he did not find the strtol hack, for he
would surely have tried for a T-shirt by producing a C is Perl
entry, just as he did in the 4th
Stephen Turner wrote:
Can someone explain to me why
-l use POSIX;print strtol pop,36
doesn't work? Where does the extra 0 come from?
To quote myself to Dave and Jerome:
BTW, because I felt you were already inundated with queries about
it, I did not bother you with what seems to be a Perl
Rick Klement wrote:
A modest suggestion for perl golf: no modules allowed.
If it's any consolation, Rick, I think most serious golfers
(well, me, at least;-) recognize those golfers who shot 46
and 47 without using any modules or external commands.
I tried hard, but could not break 50. :-( I
John W. Krahn wrote:
Well, in _this_ case, the one-liner version is 33 characters and the
file version is 34 charcters.
`/anick wrote:
Oh... Really? I'm looking forward tomorrow and discovering
that thing, then. :)
If that 33 count includes the leading perl -e', I'll go
Ooooh
Honza was the only golfer to find the clever trick of avoiding
eval by using the s///ee construct.
-nl s/|[aeiouy]/y!$!!c%2|$.%2next;'$'/gee;print 53 honza
I could not restrain myself from whittling this to 49 (see below).
We now have 5 quite different ways to break the 50 barrier!
-p $_
Jean-Pierre Vidal wrote:
The Beginners'Leaderboard helped me to go on stage unashamed,
and this is its part (do you think so, Andrew ?).
Andrew Savige wrote:
It worked wonderfully in this game because Peter Makholm,
Jason Parker and Stephen Turner staged an epic duel right up
to the final
Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
We probably need two programs: one for the arbiter, and one for the
golfers. The routines that they have in common can be put into a module,
but I'm not sure if that is the right thing to do. Installing a module
can be a problem, especially for beginners.
Jerome
Bart Lateur wrote:
What the heck can *anybody* do to improve Eugene's solution?
When paricipating in Perl golf, he's virtually always in the lead.
I'll play, so long as I'm in Eugene's team. ;-)
A team game has never been tried (to my knowledge) so we cannot be
sure whether it is a good idea
To quote myself:
To these, I would like to add Ampersands of Time:
-p !($|--~ya~ye~yi~yo~yu~yyyc)ycd
Of course, this is better written as:
-p !($|--
ya
ye
yi
yo
yu
yy
yc)ycd
so that it resembles Journey Beyond the Stars.
Apologies for the blunder.
/-\ndrew
Pradeep Sethi wrote:
but it should work in case of 09/09/1973 also ?
How about this? (golfers, please don't laugh at me;-):
my $x = '9/8/1973';
my ($d, $m, $y) = $x =~ m!(\d\d?)/(\d\d?)/(\d+)! or
die invalid date\n;
my $z = sprintf(%.2d/%.2d/%d, $d, $m, $y);
print $z\n;
/-\ndrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And while writing this text, i in fact found:
$_=aeiouy;s!!\n\$|--y-!g;print evalgrep$_--c,
Wow! 49 strokes without any unsightly command line options!
Notice that *every single* even.pl entry did, in fact,
have command line options.
/-\ndrew
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
$ is readonly; how about $ss;
Oh, All right!
-p !($|--
ya
ye
yi
yo
yu
yy
yc)ycd$ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
ss$ss$s
And, for the sake of completeness, the final member of the gang
of four,
Jean-Pierre Vidal wrote:
I like Yanick's Zen approach, supported by Peter.
So do I.
Jean-Pierre Vidal wrote:
The Beginners'Leaderboard helped me to go on stage unashamed,
and this is its part (do you think so, Andrew ?).
I was shocked at how successful the Beginner's Leaderboard was.
I did
Jean-Pierre Vidal wrote:
What is the definition of a beginner?
I think anybody is a beginner the first time (s)he plays golf.
Is this correct?
Well, I suppose it is up to the tournament host.
It will be interesting to see what Eugene does for
the Dutch Masters.
Since I have never actually
I am delighted to award the SUAP (Supremely Unorthodox Artistic
Prize) to Keith C Ivey.
There never was any doubt in my mind as to who made me laugh the
most during the entire tournament. It was Keith, locked away in
his laboratory like a mad scientist, writing all sorts of data
and code
I would like to acknowledge Rick Klement, Bart Lateur, Matthew
Byng-Maddick, Keith Ivey and Sean McAfee for all finding the
wacky Tall Trees/Toothpicks solution.
-p $_ x=$|--y|||c~(y|a|||y|e|||y|i|||y|o|||y|u|||y|y||) 57 klem
-nl ($.|y|||c|y|a|||y|e|||y|i|||y|o|||y|u|||y|y||)1||print 59 bart
We already have Tall Trees/Toothpicks:
-p $_ x=$|--y|||c~(y|a|||y|e|||y|i|||y|o|||y|u|||y|y||) 57 klem
-nl ($.|y|||c|y|a|||y|e|||y|i|||y|o|||y|u|||y|y||)1||print 59 bart
-n 1($.|~y|||c|y|a|||y|e|||y|i|||y|o|||y|u|||y|y||)||print 59 byng
-ln
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:06:32PM +0100, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
There is more going on than that. Why does Ton use the variable $| ? Any
other variable doesn't work...
Tony Bowden wrote:
This I really liked. I'd totally forgotten that $| only has 2 possible
values ...
I like it too.
I thought I would describe a little bit of background to the
tournament in case anyone is interested.
Unlike Santa's game, where I simply chose some standard utilities,
like head and tail, without any regard to golfing, this time I
wanted to cook an interesting golf hole.
To do that, I had to
Lian Claudiu Sebe wrote:
And since I've seen someone feeling bad about his position on the
leaderboard, I'd say it is more important to be on the board than just
lurking. While the top of the board can be crowded, it will always be
a guaranteed open spot right in the end of the list, just
Current Leaderboard
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1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll
2. 69 Rick Klement
3. 75 Ton Hospel
4. 75 Keith C Ivey
5. 77 Tim Gim Yee
6. 78 Wesley Darlington
7. 78 Honza Pazdziora
8. 78 Jan Yenya Kasprzak
9. 79^ Matthew Byng-Maddick
10. 80
Current Leaderboard
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1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll
2. 69 Rick Klement
3. 75 Ton Hospel
4. 75 Keith C Ivey
5. 77 Tim Gim Yee
6. 78 Wesley Darlington
7. 78 Honza Pazdziora
8. 78 Jan Yenya Kasprzak
9. 79 Matthew Byng-Maddick
10. 80
Final Leaderboard
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1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll
2. 69 Rick Klement
3. 75 Ton Hospel
4. 75 Keith C Ivey
5. 77 Tim Gim Yee
6. 78 Wesley Darlington
7. 78 Honza Pazdziora
8. 78 Jan Yenya Kasprzak
9. 79 Matthew Byng-Maddick
10. 80 Yanick
aaron Aaron Trickey
alaAla Qumsieh
assel Michael Assels
bart Bart Lateur
bobBest of Breed
book BooK
bouv Cedric Bouvier
briac Briac Pilpre
byng Matthew Byng-Maddick
byron Byron Jones
darli Wesley Darlington
eugen Eugene van der Pijll
evan Evan A Zacks
gask Patrick
aaron Aaron Trickey
alaAla Qumsieh
assel Michael Assels
bart Bart Lateur
bobBest of Breed
book BooK
bouv Cedric Bouvier
briac Briac Pilpre
byng Matthew Byng-Maddick
byron Byron Jones
darli Wesley Darlington
eugen Eugene van der Pijll
evan Evan A Zacks
gask Patrick
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote:
Other nice entries were the ones that used s/$/$/ while
aeiouy=~/.?/g I love this use of two different values of $
(which are equal, but not the same)
Rick Klement wrote:
When I found that s/$/$/g for my 44, I had the giggles
for a day :)
Rick, there were
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Just too good guys! First round to you.
Andrew Savige wrote:
If there are any other little rivalries or battles (or bets)
going on, please let us know.
I guess that makes two rivals for me in Eugene's game: Ton and Keith.
Actually, Keith's solutions are generally so original and artistic,
I don't
Current Leaderboard
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1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll
2. 69 Rick Klement
3. 74 Keith C Ivey
4. 75 Ton Hospel
5. 77 Tim Gim Yee
6. 78^ Wesley Darlington
7. 80 Yanick
8. 81 Matthew Byng-Maddick
9. 81^ Sean McAfee
10. 84 Daryl Olson
11.
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Supremely Unorthodox/Artistic Prizes
When the game is over, I would like to allow a period of discussion
on the list before awarding the artistic prizes(s).
So as soon as you can after the game has finished, I would like
Current Leaderboard
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1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll
2. 69 Rick Klement
3. 74 Keith C Ivey
4. 75 Ton Hospel
5. 77 Tim Gim Yee
6. 79 Wesley Darlington
7. 80 Yanick
8. 81 Matthew Byng-Maddick
9. 84 Daryl Olson
10. 84 sthoenna
11. 84
Current Leaderboard
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1. 77 Tim Gim Yee
2. 78 Eugene van der Pijll
3. 80 Yanick
4. 81 Rick Klement
5. 84 Keith C Ivey
6. 92 Ronald J Kimball
Beginner's Leaderboard
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1. 127 Byron Jones
Hole Leaders
Hole 1: Tim Gim
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