On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> Methods for looping:
>
> `$^X $0` (Stephen-54)
>
By the way, to return to the conversation I was having with Andrew during
the competition, I think this choice of looping method was probably the
reason why I got away with using only 14 \w\s characters -- print$_=pop
is 9, plus 5 stragglers. It wasn't really an intentional choice of a low-\w
method though -- it just came out that way.
I thought of using /..(?{ ___$&___ })/ for pulling off all pairs of
characters because of the conversation on this list a week or so ago, when
this very method was discussed.
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