On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > .... Additionally I've spent the last hour looking at the post mortem and > shaking my head. About the only 'easy' thing I missed seems to be > "(()=/[aeiouy]/ig)" => "lc=~y/aeiouy//" (as well as "length" => "y///c")
I am still kicking myself over "$_=lc,$_=y/aeiouy//.'/'.s/\w//g" => "$_=lc=~y/aeiouy//.'/'.s/\w//g", a particularly embarassing two strokes that allowed Lolly Pop to streak past me in the closing hours. I'm still trying to deconstruct the alien solutions, but I've been impressed by the wide variety of approaches allowed by a longer hole. Mad props to Steven Turner, by the way, for making pack"A" work in so few chars -- I tried it early on, but gave up in favor of Regex Hell well before 200. And Marten Carlsen, for hitting 200 without command-line flags. And to the refs, for putting up with my mad barrage of submissions. I look forward to the post-eye-surgery mailing list discussion. /s
