Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

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

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:46:12PM -0700, Eli Evans wrote:

> : -----Original Message-----
> : From: Eric [mailto:evonzee@tritechnet.com]
> : 
> : Please accept the ugliest possible solution:
> : 
> : $a="to you.";$c="dear Perl5,";map{print"Happy birthday 
> : $$_\n"}(a,a,c,a);
> : 

> I'll make no qualitative judgment here, but I'll shave a few characters:
> 
> $a='to you.';$c='dear Perl5,';print"Happy birthday $$_\n"for(a,a,c,a)
> 

These two solutions do not duplicate the original output.

Ronald

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