Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, also 7-9*index instead of 4*2**index loses a stroke and passes the test
> suite but doesn't solve the problem. (In a mail to Andrew, I called this my
You didn't try do something like '1<<index' which would save you 2
chars but then you had to do some shifting on the $. part too so might
sum up.
> Well, thank you. But I was just thinking I liked yours! The idea of writing
> a program to write a program to solve the problem somehow passed me by...
I have written a lot of scheme code including scheme-intepreters and
partial evaluators[0] to find code generating code quite
comfortable.
I'm raised with functional programming (scheme, SML and to a lesser
extend Haskell) which has a huge impact on my perl code. I prefer
map{...some code...}@list
over differetn kinds of while or for-loops. (map and other higher
order functions is heavily used in functional programming)
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