[Sorry Philippe, I sent this as a private reply first, so you've seen this already...]
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat schreef op 04 december 2001: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Rick Klement wrote: > > I'm now at 92 with no assistance :) > > I am at 94 with the assistance of the previous fwp thread for mid.pl... There is a very nice 26-character mid.pl solution which is not based on anything in that thread. > And I also cheated in head.pl (tsanta.pl accepts it, but it doesn't work > as expected...) to shave off one keystroke. If you have the same solution as Piers and me, that cheat will not be accepted by Santa. > > Mine are all simple straightforward perl, with only one using a > > command line switch, and then just with the obvious usage, none > > of this hinted trickery. I guess I'm just not trying hard enough. :) > > I guess mine are too. But Piers head.pl entry (I refer to the use.perl.org > journal entry I shouldn't have read) is very good. And it's > straightforward Perl, as documented in Amelia. I didn't think about it, > even though I translated the whole chapter 3 in French. :-S One of my solutions depends on rather illogical behaviour, which is not defined in any documentation that I know of. one or more of the others use rather obscure constructs, comparable to the one used in Piers' head.pl. > I am very curious to see what else than the obvious can be done for > rev.pl. And I wonder if shorter than the obvious is possible (I guess so). The obvious one was, I guess, found by one of the first submitters. According to the first standings, Japhy was the first hole leader, even though several people with a lower total score came along later. Let's assume that he had that obvious solution. If there is a new leader on hole 3 in the next standings, there must be a shorter one... Eugene
