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Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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Date: 
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 03:15:52 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.orgSPAMLESS
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DaveG <peagreen@intergate.ca> wrote:
#define madamimadam enifed#
Good one, works in perl, C, and C++ You win in my opinion.

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....


But even neater would be to constrain the problem such that the statement
couldn't be a palandrome...

Well,

#define thisisnotapalindrome enifed#

:)


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  Re: Programming Brain Teaser
 
(...) 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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  Re: Programming Brain Teaser
 
(...) 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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