Re: Perl Quiz of the Week #23

John D. Porter:
> 
> Guess I'm a little late, but here are two solutions which
> I think are more or less canonical:

As I think has been pointed out a couple of times, neither one will
produce "(())(())".

> What I have a hard time understanding is why anyone would approach
> this problem as anything other than a string-building task.
> Is a math-based approach, for example, more general?

I hope this doesn't sound snide, because I really don't mean it that
way, but I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this remark
now that you know that your functions don't work.