Re: [FWP] nuts is stun spelled backwards

["David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>]

Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:49:35PM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> >
> >   perl -nle'$h{$r=reverse}?print"$_ $r":$h{$_}++'  /usr/dict/words
> 
> Sneaky of you to swap the order of the words so it looks like the output is
> sorted properly.  But that puts the list in alphabetical order by the
> second word, not the first word.
> 
> Ronald

Peter's spec does not say anything about the ordering of the words
w/in the pair.  I believe Ilmari's putt reaches the hole.


David

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