Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
On Oct 7, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ It somehow seems the creative ones on this thread have been gone... Or they are occupied with other things. Cheers, tedd _ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
fre, 05 10 2012 kl. 13:43 -0400, skrev Daniel Brown: About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ Ah thats easy enough! You just have you includefiles in the $cowbell array and then require the next one! ;-) -- Lars Nielsen l...@lfweb.dk LFWeb -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ It somehow seems the creative ones on this thread have been gone... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
On 06.10.2012 03:08, Tamara Temple wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 22:50 +0200, iostream wrote: If you want to execute some code... I'm sure you've all heard of the new goes to operator by now, but I hope it might be new to somebody. $i = 10; while ($i -- 0) { // while $i goes to 0 echo $i .\n; } Okay, I haven't heard of it, and I don't get it. AFAIK, this operator does not exist, but I don't get the trick that's being applied. while ($i-- 0) should clearify things -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
Christopher Walken? Is that you? On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (rich...@underpope.com) http://www.underpope.com Publisher and Editor in Chief, Daikaijuzine (http://www.daikaijuzine.com)
RE: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
Subject: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? Is this supposed to execute to anything? I got this: Warning: require(1) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 -- I do know what it means, just thought maybe there was something more significant to it than this... Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription...is more cow bell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
It means we require more cowbell. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Steven Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: Subject: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? Is this supposed to execute to anything? I got this: Warning: require(1) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 -- I do know what it means, just thought maybe there was something more significant to it than this... Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription...is more cow bell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
That just sounds like a pun than anything else though. We require new Brainteaser; On 2012-10-05 22:36, Jonathan Sundquist wrote: It means we require more cowbell. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Steven Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: Subject: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? Is this supposed to execute to anything? I got this: Warning: require(1) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 -- I do know what it means, just thought maybe there was something more significant to it than this... Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription...is more cow bell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
If you want to execute some code... I'm sure you've all heard of the new goes to operator by now, but I hope it might be new to somebody. $i = 10; while ($i -- 0) { // while $i goes to 0 echo $i .\n; } On 2012-10-05 22:34, Steven Staples wrote: Subject: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers About five-and-a-half years ago, we had a brainteasers thread going on[1]. Last year it was briefly resurrected[2], and both times got some good content and dialogue going. So I'd like to reprise the thread in 2012, as well. Those of you connected to me on Facebook (parasane) or Twitter (@oidk) might already have seen it, but a simple one to get things rolling: ?php require ++$cowbell; ? Is this supposed to execute to anything? I got this: Warning: require(1) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\cowbell.php on line 1 -- I do know what it means, just thought maybe there was something more significant to it than this... Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription...is more cow bell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
On 05-10-2012 22:50, iostream wrote: If you want to execute some code... I'm sure you've all heard of the new goes to operator by now, but I hope it might be new to somebody. $i = 10; while ($i -- 0) { // while $i goes to 0 echo $i .\n; } Haha, nice one :) Also: don't toppost on this list. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Friday - Return of Brain Teasers
On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 22:50 +0200, iostream wrote: If you want to execute some code... I'm sure you've all heard of the new goes to operator by now, but I hope it might be new to somebody. $i = 10; while ($i -- 0) { // while $i goes to 0 echo $i .\n; } Okay, I haven't heard of it, and I don't get it. AFAIK, this operator does not exist, but I don't get the trick that's being applied. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php