Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Rick Klement
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Dec 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This game has proved more popular than I expected! I am travelling for the next day or so and my family are starting to ask what am I doing locked away in the computer room. So, please keep sending me your entries, but in the

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Rick Klement wrote: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Dec 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As goaded, I'm now at 92, thanks to a word or two of wisdom from Piers; sans assistance, I'm at 94, and I don't see much room for deprovement. I'm now at 92 with no

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
[Sorry Philippe, I sent this as a private reply first, so you've seen this already...] Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat schreef op 04 december 2001: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Rick Klement wrote: I'm now at 92 with no assistance :) I am at 94 with the assistance of the previous fwp thread for mid.pl...

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Piers Cawley
Eugene van der Pijll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Sorry Philippe, I sent this as a private reply first, so you've seen this already...] Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat schreef op 04 december 2001: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Rick Klement wrote: I'm now at 92 with no assistance :) I am at 94 with the

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
Piers Cawley schreef op 04 december 2001: Eugene van der Pijll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a very nice 26-character mid.pl solution which is not based on anything in that thread. Hmm... I think I have the same mid.pl as you. So, I need to get three chars off either tail.pl or

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Piers Cawley
Eugene van der Pijll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley schreef op 04 december 2001: Eugene van der Pijll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a very nice 26-character mid.pl solution which is not based on anything in that thread. Hmm... I think I have the same mid.pl as you. So, I

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Ian Phillipps
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 at 22:33:45 +0100, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: I am very curious to see what else than the obvious can be done for rev.pl. And I wonder if shorter than the obvious is possible (I guess so). Ah, you mean the one that's in the perl documentation :-) I wrote that as a

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Andrew . Savige
Hurrah! I am back in sunny Sydney again, 23 degrees. Plus a proper operating system; if I never use Windows 98 again, it will be too soon (can't even redirect stderr, sigh). Top priority is leaderboard update since it has been over a day now. We now have 20 competitors! I would like to encourage

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Rick Delaney
Eugene van der Pijll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley schreef op 04 december 2001: Hmm. Oh yeah, I just got rid of the -p trickery I was using in wc.pl. Shame about the 'all on one line' rule or I'd be down to 90 now... How Eugene got down to 89 is a completely mystery though.

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Geez, I have three different solutions for tail.pl, ALL the same length (19 chars). Has someone gotten below 19? -- Jeff japhy Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for Regular

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Andrew . Savige
When to end the torture? On one hand, I want to give more people a chance to enter. Some may have been away the last couple of days; others may have been too busy to get to it yet. OK, there is some ego in this too -- I might get in the Guinness Book of Records as Arbiter of the biggest golf

RE: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Andrew . Savige
Keith C. Ivey wrote: I'm not unhappy, but it seems an unnecessary restriction. An alternative would be to change GolfScore() to something like sub GolfScore { my $script = shift; open(FF, $script) or die error: open '$script'; local($/, $_); $_ = FF; close(FF);

Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse

2001-12-04 Thread Andrew . Savige
Piers Cawley wrote: I think the particular 'creative in the extreme' entry that Andrew was referring to was my head.pl that printed 10 lines then crashed using: #!perl -p 11.. Yes indeed. When I first saw that I fell off my chair laughing. When I was finally able to pick myself up