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Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:37:06 GMT
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:00:57AM +0000, richard marchetti wrote:
> Hey Y'all:
>
> Someone posed the following teaser to me, and I admit that it has stumped me
> completely. It has even stumped my programmer buddies (which creates doubt in
> my mind that there IS actually a solution to the puzzle).
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> The question was posed thusly:
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> What line of code written either in C, C++, or Perl will compile written
> forward as well as backwards? The following was submitted as an example of
> the FORM of the answer, while not itself being the answer:
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> print "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
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> ;"zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba" tnirp
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> And again, it was asserted that both statements would compile.
it doesn't have to actually produce anything, right?
try this:
perl -e 'print ,"lalal", tnirp' e- lrep
:)
I seem to recall some JAPH's code that would actually do things and would
still qualify... but I can't find it yet...
:)
Dan
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