Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

[Steven Alexander <stevena@teleport.com>]

Richard Proctor <Richard@waveney.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> $.="Happy birthday ";print"$.to you,\n"x2,"$.dear perl5,\n$.to you.\n"
> 
> 71 chars...

This lends itself to 2-char-saving (not counting the omitted '> ')
mogrification, which I reckon at 68 char:

$,="Happy birthday ";print"$,to you,\n"x2,"dear perl5,\n$,to you.\n"

-- 
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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