Re: [FWP] japh

[Michael Assels <mjassels@cs.concordia.ca>]

		       On Thu, 11 May 2000 19:29:05 EDT,
			     "Ryan Fischer" wrote:
:Michael Assels wrote:
:>
:> I have a challenge:  Can anyone produce a JAPH containing no letters, no
:> digits, no parentheses, no brackets, no braces, no spaces and no tabs.
:> (Newlines are allowed to improve readability. :-)
:
:This sounds interesting, but what do you mean by no letters?  That would
:be kinda hard.  Do you mean no letters in strings and arrays and such?
:If you couldn't use 'em in function calls, it would be near-impossible.
:I've got an idea about how to do this, but it would be incredibly long
:to say the least.

Honest, I mean no characters from the set [a-zA-Z0-9(){}\[\] \t] are
allowed.  Not in variable names, not it strings.  Nowhere.  Of course,
you're allowed to type "perl" to get started, but that's it.

It can definitely be done in fewer than 660 characters.

Michael

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