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Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 03:36:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> DaveG <peagreen@intergate.ca> wrote:
> > > #define madamimadam enifed#
> > Good one, works in perl, C, and C++ You win in my opinion.
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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....
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
something.
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> > > But even neater would be to constrain the problem such that the statement
> > > couldn't be a palandrome...
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> Well,
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> #define thisisnotapalindrome enifed#
This is not a line describing me laughing at your great joke.
Looks like we have to have it do something forwards and back.
Hmmmmm (smoke pours out of ears) thats a tough one.
DaveG
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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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