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(...) 'Course, that's not legal C.... (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not even legal Perl and he did say Perl. Only works in C++ or in a C with C++ extentions. Kick him twice as much. And (MattM) you may be right that the ; alone is to taking a liberty with the term statement. DaveG (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ;("abcdefghijklmnopq...yz")ftnirp (...) 'Course, if ';' doesn't count as a statement, it makes it much more difficult, since most commands end with a ';', and therefore have to start with one as well if they're to be read in backwards-- making (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Good one, works in perl, C, and C++ You win in my opinion. (...) What a nasty addition to the problem. Gonna have to think about it... DaveG (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I thought of that one, but I'm not sure it counts as a statement. In perl, of course, it's a comment. And in C/C++, it's a preprocessor directive.... (...) Well, #define thisisnotapalindrome enifed# :) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You got it right again you punk<grin>, Page 616:Programming Perl O'Reilly: Statement- A *command* to the computer about what to do next....Not to be confused with a *declararation* which doesn't tell the computer to do anything, but just learn (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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