Comments on Cipher Minigolf

First off, thanks go to Mercutio and Terje for this contest, which would
have been a lot more fun if I had a better score :)

Also congratulations to MTV Europe for his 8th consecutive victory! I
add my personal thanks to you for moving Jasper down 14 points, allowing
me to hold on to my #5 spot on the player list. There's always next
time, Jasper :)

I also was surprised by Ton's post-mortem only appearance. This is the
second time he has added his score just after the contest. The
good-sport policy of posting scores early is intended to keep players
from purposely holding out to surprise the others. However, if you don't
actually *have* a score until near the end there is no holding out
involved. So please post if you have a good score and the contest is
still going on. Unless I'm in the lead, that is :)

And now some discussion about the solutions to encourage even more
players next round and get Eugene to keep coming back:

There were not a lot of different approaches here, but there were some
interesting tricks (that I missed).

1)	Using $& in a y/// replace
2)	/\pL/ instead of /[A-Z]/ (I don't have 5.8, and I don't get this)
3)	uc<> on the way in.
4)	Using vec is always a trick to me :)
5)	Jasper's neat use of $#a to keep $&th element of A-Z
6)	Auto split to @_ (I forgot about this one too)
7)	INIT{} which jinx just learned about

Please add your own favorites that I missed!

I was dreaming of a regex solution without ord and never came close. I
was stuck on -p to solve all my problems.

Congrats also go to jinx on a nice first round and to Mercutio for his
late surge up the leaderboard to capture some extra points on his puzzle!

And remember that Eugene might not play again if there isn't enough
post-mortem discussion :)

See y'all next round!

Michael