Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-23 Thread John Porter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Embedding newlines inside quotes is controversial; doubtless, some golfers and japhers would seek to ban this perhaps shady practice. If Andrew's comments were meant to be taken in the context of golf, then I misunderstood and I apologize. I thought he meant

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:28:49PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Fine rules for JAPH version 1.0. This is all well and good, but the JAPH that can be specified is not the true JAPH. We've had JAPHs in combined perl and postscript. JAPHs that print out Just another Perl / Unix Hacker

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread Ian Phillipps
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 at 11:32:18 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal Schwartz) 1 Feb 90 22:28:58 GMT @a=split(/(\d)/,4Hacker,2another3Perl1Just);shift(@a);%a=@a; print @a{1..4}; 66: %a=(,split /(\d)/,4Hacker,2another3Perl1Just);print@a{1..4}; I *think* this will

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Abigail == Abigail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Abigail Being the one who has given several talks about Japhs, I've decreed Abigail that a Japh uses the following rules: Abigail- It prints Just another Perl Hacker with some reasonable Abigail captalization, followed by optional

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread Abigail
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:00:10PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:48:27AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: Ian Phillipps wrote: What *is* the world's shortest JAPH, anyway? Well, if you're allowed to use modules: perl -MJ -ej for suitable values of J.pm

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread Abigail
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:46:43PM -0400, Keith C. Ivey wrote: Abigail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being the one who has given several talks about Japhs, I've decreed that a Japh uses the following rules: - It prints Just another Perl Hacker with some reasonable captalization,

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew . Savige
Ian Phillipps wrote: What *is* the world's shortest JAPH, anyway? I would be disappointed if it were just 'print ' If we ban external programs, is this the shortest? dieJust another Perl hacker Note the elegant embedding of newline inside the quotes (saves a character over \n :-).

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread John Porter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Embedding newlines inside quotes is controversial; doubtless, some golfers and japhers would seek to ban this perhaps shady practice. Absolutely not. Amongst C programmers, maybe (:-) but not Perl programmers. Where'd you get that strange idea? -- John Porter

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread Steve Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Phillipps wrote: What *is* the world's shortest JAPH, anyway? I would be disappointed if it were just 'print ' If we ban external programs, is this the shortest? dieJust another Perl hacker if external programs -that come with Perl- are allowed, you

Re: World's First JAPH

2001-08-22 Thread Jas Nagra
Or sometimes: dieJust another $^X hacker jas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Phillipps wrote: What *is* the world's shortest JAPH, anyway? I would be disappointed if it were just 'print ' If we ban external programs, is this the shortest? dieJust another Perl hacker Note the