On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > En op 9 ogustus 2002 sprak Michael W Thelen: > > Actually, this is kind of an interesting question... what are the various ways > > that people have used to get a value of 1 into a variable? These aren't all > > very good, but here's what I can think of: > > $^F/2 . I'm a bit surprised that Marko Nippula was the only other > golfer who used $^F in factorial.pl . >
I tried to use $^F, but I had to special-case 0 and 1, and it took too many characters. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01