Re: [FWP] Whitespace: the final frontier

[Holger Eitzenberger <eitz@weh.rwth-aachen.de>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:18:59PM +0100, Mark Whitaker (EML) wrote:

>    1. Write your program as per usual.
>    2. unpack the code into a binary representation
>    3. Convert the 1s to spaces and the 0s to tabs (or whatever)

> And there you have it: a script neatly packaged away into whitespace! In order to run it, you just perform the steps in reverse, i.e.:
> 
>    1. Convert the spaces and tabs (or whatever) back to 1s and 0s
>    2. pack to a string
>    3. eval the string

I just saw an example in the Obfuscated C Contest which something
similar.  It converted pairs of braces with some spaces in between
into ASCII characters where the number of spaces gave the actual
character.

  -- Holger

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