On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:46:51AM -0500, Simon Drabble wrote:
It might be instructive to have the lowest scores per hole published
What? And loose the angst of trying to figure out on which
of the courses you're beaten by a few characters? Nay, I say,
nay, nay, a thousand times nay!
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:57:48PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The programs should be sound; passing tsanta.pl is no guarantee.
A program that failed on files longer than 100 lines, for instance,
would certainly be disqualified.
Urgh. Then you can s/2.1/2+.5/ my entries and
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:29:42PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
`/anick wrote:
The following is not very clever obfuscation, and it's not
the most palatable ASCII drawing ever drawn, but I suppose
it's good enough to elicit a few chuckles and/or groans.
Bart Lateur wrote:
On day
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:50:15PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My proposed game would be just a minor fwp tour event.
Sometime around the end of January may be a suitable time, but
I want to go along with the wishes of the majority, and will
happily cancel it if people feel we are being
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:50:44AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
-n $\=$/;$,=':';print/([^]*|[^\s#]+)\s*(?:#.*)?/g
Close. I said: The surrounding quotes are themselves not part of the
field, so the quotes should not get printed. Also, I said: Fields
are separated by 1 or more
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:32:15PM -0500, Aaron D. Marasco wrote:
Here is my attempt, at 7 lines (need to count #! line)...
#!/cygdrive/r/perl/bin/perl -n
if(/[\s-]*([^:]*)\s*:/){$a[$.]=--== $1 ==--\n;next}
($a[$.],$b[$.],$c[$.])=/\s+(\w+)\s*(\w*)\s*(\d*)/;
$l=length$1;$m=$l if($l$m);
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:42:11PM +, Robin Houston wrote:
On London.pm we're wondering what this Perl 6 operator is called.
Suggestions so far: topcat, firework, rat, squirrel.
Any thoughts?
Flirting duck?
(well, it /is/ winking at me!)
Joy,
`/anick
--
@sympatico =
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:36:59PM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
It's semi-official name is the hypermatch operator. It's an array
version of the ordinary =~ match operator. (Which used to be just
for regular expressions, but is now for all sorts of matches.)
@a = (foo, bar, baz);
@a
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:59:21AM +, Robin Houston wrote:
I agree that shrinkable isn't great. Any better ideas?
Slice-wise alphabetically ascendent?
Joy,
`/.
--
$_= e nte elhce.rka rPrhoatY; @nothing = ( '', '' );
s#(.)(.*)(.)#$2#g and ($\,$,)=($1,$3) and print @nothing
while
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:31:25AM -0600, Matthew Wickline wrote:
(well, it /is/ winking at me!)
why not call it a wink? ... or maybe a flirt?
I kind of like 'flirt'.
But I still don't understand what it brings more
than a classic 'map', or why The Power That Is didn't
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:21:04AM -0500, Bill -OSX- Jones wrote:
I am at 119 strokes ... and it fails... I no longer have any idea
why :(
Are we allowed to ask for help???
It goes against the fundamentally sadistic principle of the
game, but yeah, why not? :)
Joy,
`/anick
--
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:41:13PM +0100, Joerg Ziefle wrote:
BTW, did anybody get below 35 (with the original test program) for gs.pl?
*mad cackles*
`/.
--
print map { ( split '', 'P arctehYkl.no' )[ hex ] }
split '', '86512cd57631063a1724963b';
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:32:14PM -0500, Jason Purdy wrote:
I don't have the rules with me (I'm at work now), but I thought that there
has to be an even # (or 0) of each vowel separately. Is that right?
This is correct. So the code mentioned in the parent message
is broken (sorry,
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:17:05PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Current Leaderboard
---
1. 69 Rick Klement
AAAUGH!!!
(and I think I speak for the vast majority of us here...)
`/anick, still stuck at the impossibly high score of 80.
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:50:54PM -0500, Bill -OSX- Jones wrote:
So, to come back, allow me to ask:
$_ = a planet of Perl Fun;
for $y(qw/a e f l n o p r t u/){$x||=y/$y//%2; print $y $x \n}
What is $x being set to and why ?
Nothing interesting, as y/// doesn't extrapolate. Try
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:55:29AM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
I know many people have done it already but I'd like to thank Andrew for
running this game. It was a ball (in a hair pulling, bad language kinda way).
I will join my voice to the chorus. To come up with such
Jean-Pierre Vidal wrote:
What is the definition of a beginner?
I think anybody is a beginner the first time (s)he plays golf.
Is this correct?
Here, I would take the Zen approach and say that
beginnership is something personal. If you turn your
gaze inward (metaphorically speaking,
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:17:17PM -0800, Pradeep Sethi wrote:
Hi All,
I want to change date 9/9/1987 to 09/09/1973
was wondering, what is the most efficient way ?
Probably not:
$_ = '9/9/1987';
$=;$_=
@{[(m|(\d)|g)[qw]
3 0 2 1 5 ]],$+-4]};
s| .|0$/|x ;
s|(?=\D).|0$/|x ;
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:09:53PM +0100, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
Or: find the RegEx, given a number of strings that match it. A kind of
Perl Zendo (see http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Kory/Games/Zendo/ for an
explanation of Zendo).
Or a Perlish hangman?
The gamemaster
what the code is
roughly supposed to do. Mmm, looks a lot like a hangman.
Oh yeah, I can see it from here:
'Yanick, it's your turn.'
I will take the dollar sign...
*ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding*
*ding* *ding* *ding
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:26:54PM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote:
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:01:16 -0500, Steve Lane wrote:
just require that if a variable name contains
a letter, then that letter must be 'z' (or whatever).
$z, $zz, $, @z, etc.
I take: the letter...!
*ding* *ding*
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:32:29PM -0500, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
I have an interesting idea. Take Perl code, and jumble it around to
something else (valid or not) and state the original code's purpose.
# find all prime numbers
$_||=(1)^(\1/~++$$)while +x._/+1;print
The comment
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:56:03AM +, Matt Bernstein wrote:
On Feb 11 Jerome Quelin wrote:
In order to apply these rules, I slightly modified your submissions to meet
the requirements (ie, add a $_=pop, or a -l flag, etc.). If the
modifications were too important, your submission is
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:37:56AM -0600, Dave Hoover wrote:
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07:22, Jerome Quelin wrote:
Since when does a golf contest not accept one-liners? [..]
Looking back just a few months in the fwp archives shows that Santa's,
Ton's, and Andrew's golf tournaments all
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:00:24PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote:
Yanick wrote:
perl -e'codecodecode'
#!perl
codecodecode
? Unless I'm forgetting something major, the second option
gives you a few bonus strokes and protects you of the evil
that shells do
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:21:14PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope this 45 restores some credibility to the Andrew-Ton collective
whose motto is: If you can't win the game, win the post-mortem. :)
Might I propose an alternative motto:
Beating dead (golf)
If anyone is interested to see a graphical representation
of the scores:
http://babyldyndnsorg/golf/
I quickly hacked a little page that slurp the scores off
the official page and make a histogram out of it
(please note the ties are not handled correctly as
we speak I'll try
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:53:09PM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote:
Dave Hoover wrote:
Question: how will it scale as the number of golfers grow? Will it push
off
the right side of the page? It fits nicely in my browser right now, but
I'm
not sure how well it would scale to the 73 veteran
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:38:14PM +, Stephen Turner wrote:
Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal US word for what we
over here call a 'bunker'? Is 'bunker' also used?
I think both are used But I'm probably the last guy you want
to have as a reference for this kind
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:17:26AM +0100, F Xavier Noria wrote:
There is this text in BoB's leaderboard box:
BoB (run by referees - outside competition)
What does it mean?
That he can give us ulcers, but will not get a t-shirt when
the winners will be announced :)
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:58:19PM -0600, Dave Hoover wrote:
Well, obviously, being able to get the score of the golfer would
be kind of fun. :)
OK.
And having the score of previous golf courses would be neat too.
And, and that would be Neat witha capital, underlined N, is to
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:29:16PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
En op 14 maart 2002 sprak `/anick:
My next step is to try to create mock-baseball cards
with scores and everything. Shouldn't be too hard to do...
I think we should allocate earnings for each tournament, so
we can
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:50:50PM +0100, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:21:27PM -0500, Yanick wrote:
A first tentative to see what kind of stuff can be done
with that can be found at
http://babyl.dyndns.org/golf/golfers.epl
There we have a list
as a 'beginner' and get a handicap on your Y-index.
But I don't really have strong opinions, and ain't a
beginner anyway. So I'll let the Llamas among us speak for
themselves. :)
Joy,
Yanick
--
My fear is greater than my faith but I walk the missionary way
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:06:39PM -0400, Josh Goldberg wrote:
I came up with another one. This also works for values of true other
than 1.
if ($a=~tr/.[^0]+/0/c) { do_something(); }
s/tr/s/, maybe ?
(the transliterate operator doesn't use patterns, so
the code
/-//;
}
[yanick@gilgamesh yanick]$ perl hyphen hypo-allergeen hy-po-al-ler-geen
1
3
4
Joy,
`/anick
PS: as a bonus, we can play 'Where's /-\ndrew' with the script.
--
My fear is greater than my faith but I walk the missionary way.
- Suede, Tori Amos
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Aristoteles Pagaltzis wrote:
perl -pe'!/\S/?($e++and$_=):($e=0)' filename
perl -pe'/\S/?($e=0):($e++and$_=)' filename
:)
Joy,
`/anick
--
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair;
a narrow escape into faith.-- Christopher Fry
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:51:54PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
Y == Yanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
no one seems to have seen my earlier post on this so here it is again
and it is much shorter.
Y perl -pe'/\S/?($e=0):($e++and$_=)' filename
perl -0777pe's/^\s*\n/\n/m
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:26:22PM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote:
my @lines = split(/^/, $x, -1); chomp(@lines); # fastest?
I'll prolly say something stupid here, but:
my @lines = split \n, $x;
Joy,
`/.
--
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:00:19AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:22:54PM -0500, Yanick Champoux wrote:
Somehow, I think Philippe knew that. ;-)
Even better, I knew I didn't need them.
I knew you knew. :-) I was more saying Philippe knows
Andrew Savige wrote:
@{[]} join $, ...
My better half proposes to call this one the papoose operator.
Joy,
`/anick
After way too long in the making, I am proud to announce that a first beta of
Perlwar is finally available to the public.
Glad to hear that. But what is PerlWar?
PerlWar is loosely inspired by the classic Corewar game. In this game, players
pit snippets of Perl code (called 'agents') against
After way too long in the making, I am proud to announce that a first beta of
Perlwar is finally available to the public.
Glad to hear that. But what is PerlWar?
PerlWar is loosely inspired by the classic Corewar game. In this game, players
pit snippets of Perl code (called 'agents') against
Well, I'll be darned. Some people actually volunteered. :-)
So far, I have 7 volunteers to play in the first beta game, which should
already be enough to have an unhealthy amount of fun (although it's not too
late to jump on the bandwagon). If everything goes well, the game should kick
off
For the amusement of all camels and llamas present, here's a code-review of
Perlwar done by Uri. For the record, he sent it my way barely a few hours
after the initial release, which speaks volumes about the man's alacrity, and
my weakness for procrastination.
Joy,
`/anick
--
shmem wrote:
To brighten up your day - here's the winged moon, which isn't an
operator, but a constant:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Georg added:
Similar to the winged moon - an operator (token?) which scares
the hell out of the remainder of a list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Me likes. Lots. I
shmem wrote:
in fact, shmem and Georg are the same guy, though 'Georg' just slipped ;-)
One would think that the same sig and style and everything would have
tipped me off. But no... That was too suble for me still. :-P
Me likes. Lots. I propose, as alternative names for
Georg Moritz wrote:
From the keyboard of Yanick Champoux [12.01.08,18:50]:
*dieresis* or *diæresis *A diacritical mark (* ¨ *) optionally used in
English, oftentimes replaced by a hyphen. In English, the dieresis is used on
a second identical vowel to indicate a change in pronunciation
Michael G Schwern wrote:
Yanick Champoux wrote:
*dieresis* or *diæresis [..]
Really they just want to be more metal. Soon it will be ¡KömpUsërV.DøøM!
And to thing that, all those years, I laughed at Spinal Tap's claim
to be avant-garde and visionary geniuses. They were right
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