Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:42:16PM -0500, Rubinow, Larry wrote:
> I wrote:
> 
> > 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."
                                                                  ^^^

Trim off one more; you don't need a semicolon after a conditional or loop
block.

But I'm still ahead at 73 characters.  :)

Ronald

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