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Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 02:22:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, David Goeb writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> > > richard marchetti <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote:
> > > > Yeah, and maybe I am going to have to kick this guy until he is dead. His
> > > > solution was:
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> > > > printf("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"); // • ;("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")ftnirp
> > >
> > > 'Course, that's not legal C....
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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
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> '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 it two statements... I
> suppose you could do:
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> #define madamimadam enifed#
Good one, works in perl, C, and C++ You win in my opinion.
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> But even neater would be to constrain the problem such that the statement
> couldn't be a palandrome...
What a nasty addition to the problem. Gonna have to think about it...
DaveG
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Message has 1 Reply:
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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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| (...) ;("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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