En op 12 juni 2002 sprak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > En op 12 juni 2002 sprak Geldenhuys Willie: > > yesterday evening i looked at Eugene van der Pijll's 311.34 solution > > (it was the closest to mine, except that mine didn't cope with >60 line > > sentences well enough to pass the test program and i want to know what > > i did wrong.). > > > > $v=s/[aeiouy]/$&/gi is undefined iso 0 if no vowels were found. > > so one must change that as follows: > > $v=s/[aeiouy]/$&/gi||0; > > Well spotted. Eugene's 311.34 solution as reported in the > post-mortem fails the test program. I think this was the first > solution received, so I suspect the judges were using a more > primitive version of the test program which did not check > the zero vowel case.
It was. I submitted it at 1:30 UTC, and some spoil-sport mentioned the zero vowel case to the judges 45 minutes later. I hadn't noticed that this solution had the same problems, though. > If (-ugene is retrospectively stripped of the "first > working submission" title, who does it go to? > Surely not `/anick? Not sure, but I think one of > (-ugene's later submissions would get the nod. Earliest valid solutions: Eugene 2:56 Keith 5:09 Rick 6:07 Ton 6:10 Ronald Kimball 6:14 (his final solution...) So Ton was awake at 8 in the morning (local time) to play golf! On a Saturday! Now that's dedication. (-ugene -- It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. -- |-|orace
