On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:36 AM, Jasper McCrea wrote:
I wasn't subscribed to the list, but the referees did drop me a note telling meOops, correction:Rick, Stephen: 54.559 Jeff: 54.563
Am I the only one who has a slight problem with classifying positions using a
more accurate score than is displayed in the leaderboard? I wasn't able to read
my golf mail last week, and wasn't able to tell who was in the lead. Jeff may
also have been in this position, if he's even subscribed to the list. If I were
Jeff, I think I'd feel a little put out at being classified third. (I don't
particularly care about me being fifth instead of fourth - a miss is as good as
a mile, whatever that means).
I was behind the leaders. No complaints there, and for a while, I did enjoy
looking at the leaderboard and fantasizing that I was winning. I'll admit, by
now it's gotten a little embarrassing; I would like to see the leaderboard
carried out another decimal place.
So, no complaints about not finishing first; I think I did that to myself by
playing the hole under 5.6.0. Solutions ending in $_=@p[$_] did not work for
me, because $_ (the whole input line) was subscripting as zero. I was
mystified, especially when $` worked fine; search the postmortem for the
word "impossible". Now I've upgraded, and the thing works, a little too late.
So, I'm guessing this was some odd bug in 5.6.0.
Let me be clear; I'm thrilled to have missed first place by .004. This is the
first time I've been close enough to see the leaders.
Am I a cautionary tale yet? Upgrade!
-Jeff Moore
