RE: [FWP] perl5 is 5

["Rubinow, Larry" <Larry.Rubinow@westgroup.com>]

I wrote:

> Richard Proctor wrote:
> 
> > perl5 is 5.
> > 
> > So in the spirit of JAPH:
> > 
> > for(0..3){print"Happy birthday ".(/2/?"dear perl5":"to 
> > you").(/3/?".":",")."\n"}
> > 
> > Can anybody get it smaller...
> 
> Arguably different output (though not to the casual 
> observer), but two chars shorter:
> 
> for(0..3){print"\nHappy birthday ".(/2/?"dear perl5":"to 
> you").","};print"\b."

Oops.  My bad.  Trim off two more chars:

for(0..3){print"\nHappy birthday ".(/2/?"dear perl5,":"to you,")};print"\b."

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