Re: The Mr Magoo Awards (tpr05a)

Hello Adam!

[email protected] wrote:
> Despite not finding the above soln in time, I enjoyed my first round of
> golf 
> greatly, and will certinally be back, regex skills or not.  Regexs are not 
> always the answer though, despite what mtv may claim.  For example in the 
> minigolf thread "Son of (-ugene's Cantor" the shortest solution given was 
> Ton's
> -l $_=$"x2**pop;$_="$'/\\",print,s/(?<=\\)../$&^KI^D5/egwhile/^ /
> the following is, however, 4 strokes shorter :
> -l print$"x--$x,map$x&$_?$"x2:"/\\",0..$_-1for 1..($x=2**pop)

Hmm, indeed no way to insert regex here but this exception (second after
http://www.ardinternet.com/golf/oddnumbermagicsquare/ ) just confirms
the rule!    Anyway there _are_ ways to squeeze this unusual algorithm:

-l $x=2**pop;print$"x--$x,map$x&$_?$"x2:"/\\",0..$y++while$x

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