On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Dec 14, Ilmari Karonen said:
> >On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> >> On Dec 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >>
> >> >what is the longest piece of perl code $c which is "perl -c" correct with
> >> >the requirement that each character in $c is ord-less than the next one. ie
> >>
> >> !&'()*+-.0123456789<=>@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}
> >>
> >> Note the leading space. I think that's as good as you'll get.
> >
> >I think I can do better, quite easily:
> >
> >
>#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
>
> We were explicitly asked to ignore #.
Oops, so I see. That's what I get for not reading the original spec
carefully enough. \cD seems to be out too. (Although it was fun to
find out a new trick, so I guess the effort wasn't all wasted.)
It seems you're still in the lead so far.
--
Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"Signal handlers are known to be broken in perl. Did you expect them to
somehow get unbroken when ITHREADS is enabled?"
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