Re: simple golf for fun

Ronald J Kimball <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:53:15 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.golf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:25:20PM +0200, Juho Snellman wrote:
> Phil Carmody <[email protected]> writes:
> > 1//regexp/ would crash on the same thing that s/regexp// fails to blank.
> > So I thought that might be the intended (not space-saving) technique with
> > a rather bizarre unnecessary use of an unquoted literal to add confusion!
> > But a typo seems to make more sense.
> 
> Typoing two characters and still ending up with a program that
> implements the - admittedly loose - spec seems pretty unlikely :-) I
> just liked the looks of the a/// operator.

That was too clever for me I guess. :)

Ronald