Re: A new golf "Entropy compress" has started

Rick Klement <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:59:31 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.golf
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Ton Hospel wrote:
> 
> In article <[email protected]>,
>         Mtv Europe <[email protected]> writes:
> > Hello All!
> >
> > A new golf "Entropy compress" is at http://terje2.perlgolf.org/
> >
> > Don't miss postmortems of http://kernelpanic.pl/perlgolf-view.mx?id=27
> > in case you was somewhere out.
> >
> Too much input is valid. In particular, sequences of digits are valid
> input, so you can't distinguish literal numbers from backreferences
> and therefore can't decode certain input.

The first sentence of the rules states that this compression is
for "files which contain no digit characters".

-- 
Rick Klement