It seems to me that both ton's solution and his alternative solution are
incorrect:
<<<
$ perl foresttest.pl
Hole 'forest'
forest.pl: Running test 1 ... (args: 7 9 6 3) Unexpected STDOUT:
Expected:
** **
* * *
***
*@
***
* * *
** **
* * *
*
but got:
@@ @@
@ @ @
@@@
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems to me that both ton's solution and his alternative solution are
> incorrect:
> What gives?
>
probably means it's wrong, though i thought what I did was actually portable.
What is your perl version ? What is
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ton Hospel wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It seems to me that both ton's solution and his alternative solution are
> > incorrect:
> > What gives?
> >
> probably means it's wrong, though i thought what I did was actu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> perl -wle 'print+(0..3)[2**32]'
>
> 3
>
Ok, I totally misjudged what would happen on 32-bit perls, so
my solution is wrong. It's easy enough to fix at the cost of a few
strokes (e.g. using 188/~- instead of 1<< is