To render a literal containing quotes as a string, you have to double the
quote marks in it. Applying format to Marshall's expression formats its
result, not the expression, i.e.
$'_*'{~4=+/~4<.|i:5
11 11
versus
'''_*''{~4=+/~4<.|i:5'
'_*'{~4=+/~4<.|i:5
#'''_*''{~4=+/~4<.|i:5'
18
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]>wrote:
> What does the ll mean? I was trying to count the characters in the
> expression.
>
> #":'4+5=9'
> 11
> ' *'{~4=+/~ 4<.|i:5
> *
> *
> * *
> * *
> * *
> ** **
> * *
> * *
> * *
> *
> *
> #":' *'{~4=+/~ 4<.|i:5
> 11
>
>
> Also:
>
> #' *'{~4=+/~4<.|i:5
> 11
>
> Linda
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Marshall Lochbaum
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 10:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] code golf
>
> Here's 18:
>
> '_*'{~4=+/~4<.|i:5
> _____*_____
> _____*_____
> ____*_*____
> ___*___*___
> __*_____*__
> **_______**
> __*_____*__
> ___*___*___
> ____*_*____
> _____*_____
> _____*_____
> # '''_*''{~4=+/~4<.|i:5'
> 18
>
> Marshall
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:17:03AM +0900, June Kim (김창준) wrote:
> > There was a large developers conference last weekend in Seoul. The
> > estimated attendants were about 2000.
> >
> > In the open booth hall, they held a code golf contest. The problem is
> > write a program that produces(replace _ with blank):
> >
> > _____*_____
> > _____*_____
> > ____*_*____
> > ___*___*___
> > __*_____*__
> > **_______**
> > __*_____*__
> > ___*___*___
> > ____*_*____
> > _____*_____
> > _____*_____
> >
> > There is no language restriction. If it's under 150 bytes, you get a
> > latte and tumbler. There is also a score board that shows top N
> > solutions' code sizes.
> >
> > As I remember the first was 73 bytes. He used shell script and gzipped
> > the output and appended it to the script.
> >
> > I did it in 30 bytes in J but did'nt participate the contest.
> >
> > What about you?
> >
> > sent from an android phone
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