Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

[Marcel Grunauer <marcel.grunauer@lovely.net>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:46:52 +0100 (BST), you 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...

2 characters shorter:

print"Happy birthday ".(?2??"dear perl5":"to you").(?3??".":",")."\n"
for 0..3


Or for something completely different:

print$h='Happy birthday',$t=' to you',",\n$h$t,\n$h dear
perl5,\n$h$t.\n";

That's another 4 characters shorters, so saved 6 in total.


-- 
Marcel, Perl Padawan
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