Re: New Golf

2007-01-04 Thread Robin Houston
On the subject of new golf, I wonder if you golfers all know about http://codegolf.com? The rules are not quite the same as traditional Perl golf: the most important difference is that the whole of the shebang line counts towards the size, which effectively penalises the use of switches by seven s

Re: New Golf

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Savige
It seems to me that some of the solutions are not quite correct, failing the test case: MD plus I which should produce the answer MDI. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the shortest solutions of szery, Sec and Jasper all fail this test case. Falling back one stroke from 4e3 to

Re: New Golf

2007-01-04 Thread Jasper
On 1/4/07, Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems to me that some of the solutions are not quite correct, failing the test case: MD plus I which should produce the answer MDI. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the shortest solutions of szery, Sec and Jasper all fail

Re: New Golf

2007-01-04 Thread Stefan `Sec` Zehl
Oh, On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:44 +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: > It seems to me that some of the solutions are not quite correct, failing the > test case: > > MD plus I Well. Thats definitely bad. I gather that is what I get for taking other peoples ideas from the web :-) Ok, count me as roma

Re: New Golf

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Savige
--- Stefan `Sec` Zehl (principal taunter of `/anick) wrote: > Ok, count me as > > romancalc.pl: 120.51 strokes (ok), md5=82eb4544217b1d7054bb90e9c75e3d27 Woohoo! Just two more diabolical test cases and I'll have caught the elusive Sec. ;-) You might call this "golfing the post mortem" ... speak