Re: The "flaming X-wing" secret operator

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:43:36AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> >
> > 	Me likes. Lots.  I propose, as alternative names for those two tokens, the 
> > "fat bat" (because it does look like a particularly rotund specimen of that 
> > species, and in honor of the large value it yields) and the"laughing joker" 
> > (as in, "just kidding, the rest of the line doesn't apply). :-)
> 
> Of course, we now need canonical usage examples of those two.
> 

One usage could combine them two. When you need to use the largest
possible integer on 32 bits, you can use them both. Of course, it's a
slight golf (1 character winned), but a real golfer will do much better.

    2**32-1  # UINT_MAX
    ~@~^@^   # fat bat & laughing joker
    ~0       # golf hole

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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