Re: It's so simple ! It can't be that hard !

2002-07-25 Thread Greg Allen
The explanation for weirdness is where golfers should always look for answers - the perl documentation. See unders WARNINGS in "perldoc perlform". Greg --- Ton Hospel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ryan Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 24 Jul

Leaderboard request was Re: tpr04c started

2002-08-01 Thread Greg Allen
Seem to remember that this may have been discussed before, but I think it would be nice if the leaderboard could show the top scores per hole. Note that this information *isn't* secret - since the "Golfer's in play" table reveals players scores per hole! No need for this to be separated by veteran

putting practice

2002-08-30 Thread Greg Allen
Okay, so I've decided to practise my golfing before the next apocalypse (after steadfastly refusing to try -n0 //m in my last outing, and just discovering ~$&). I thought maybe I should devise my own problem to golf. But then not 5 minutes later I stumble across an excellent candidate due to Chris

Re: putting practice

2002-08-30 Thread Greg Allen
rties - cool though. 3. don't use Vroman's DIY Perl Quick reference - it's for 5.004 and doesn't even have a dagger for reverse. i.e. by default acts on $_. think I try a decoder instead... much learnt! cheers, Greg --- Mtv Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello

Re: putting practice

2002-08-30 Thread Greg Allen
Hurrah: a decoder.. much borrowed, too much added (scores 105). #!perl -p s#\pL+(`\pL*)?#$_=$&;$1||s/(..)(..)/$1`$2/;/`/?($l=()=/../g)&&join'',/([^`])(?=.{$l}(.)?)/g:reverse#eg Greg --- Mtv Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Greg! > > [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Some random reflections on tpr05a

2002-09-09 Thread Greg Allen
--- Juho Snellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] The most cruel case being Greg Allen's solutions under 200. The > code worked on Activestate, but segfaulted on stock 5.6.1 on > Linux. No experimental regexp features. And it would have worked > with a maximum input size of 9980! Ind

Re: A tortoise-rambling email

2002-09-11 Thread Greg Allen
--- Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the "inside > out" algorithm for about five minutes before I decided > it wasn't helping much. In retrospect, it turns out > that for that solution you need to carefully mark when > you've already RPN'd a region. As I was saying in my last email

Re: The Mr Magoo Awards (tpr05a)

2002-09-11 Thread Greg Allen
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I finally got around to writing a little program to prevent > you stubbing your putter into the ground behind the ball > when attempting to smoothly stroke a one inch putt into > the hole. v. cool. Got two strokes off me! A couple of amendments to Mr. Magoo, to auto

Re: Googlism and golfers

2002-11-08 Thread Greg Allen
Hey, this is a new type of low-energy golf: "greg allen is on 51" and just sit back and wait for the robots to do their work. It's never been so easy to get ahead of ton. what does it tell you that ton is the only one that googlism returns a score for? Greg --- Andrew Savige &l