Re: [FWP] Factorial Elegance

[Rick Klement <rklement@pacbell.net>]

tayers@bridge.com wrote:
> 
> My department gives a short Perl test as part of the interview
> process.

I used to do it the other way, I'd give interviewees a function
and ask what it did. Here's the function:

sub xxx { eval join '*', 1 .. shift }

Few people got it, but then few people would get my previous question,
which was "delete the last blank from a string". (A lot of people
*claimed* Perl knowledge...)

> 
> Hope you have a very nice day, :-)
> Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com)
> 
> P.S. Maybe I should have sent this to thanks@perl.org instead. :-)
> After about three years of using the language, I'm still having a lot
> of fun learning and am amazed just about everyday at what an
> astounding language it is.

Me too... Seldom does a Perl coding day go by without
a few chuckles...

-- 
Rick Klement

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