Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

[Steven Alexander <stevena@teleport.com>]

Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> wrote:
> > This lends itself to squeezing out 3 more characters, for 73:
> > 
> > print+("dear perl5,","\nHappy birthday ","to you,","\b.")[1,2,1,2,1,0..3]
> 
> Well, then here's another, compressing that 1,2,1,2 sequence:
> 
> print+("dear perl5,","\nHappy birthday ","to you,","\b.")[(1,2)x2,1,0..3]

I tried that.  I think your 2-character savings came from
the omission of "> ".   length('1,2,1,2') == length('(1,2)x2').

-- 
Steven Alexander
stevena@teleport.com
<http://www.teleport.com/~stevena/>
perl -le 'print map chr($_?64+((0<=>$_)+(-1+$_**2)**2)%17:()),-2..2'


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