Re: [FWP] Fun With Golf

[Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Ian Phillipps wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 at 00:16:59 +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> 
> > So what's wrong with the arithmetic approach?
> >   sub hole {$_&&(abs($_)-1)%9+1}
> 
> Nothing (see my entry to the golf match), except that it should be $_[0]
> not $_.

Oops, easily fixed at the cost of two strokes:

      sub hole {"@_"&&(8+abs pop)%9+1}

And now I see that the $_ version could've been two strokes shorter..

-- 
Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song / Ranting and raving and
 carrying on / Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong...
 NAAAAH!"  -- Denis Leary, _Asshole_



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