On Feb 11 Yanick wrote: >> On Feb 11 Jerome Quelin wrote: >> >In order to apply these rules, I slightly modified your submissions to meet >> >the requirements (ie, add a "$_=pop", or a " -l" flag, etc.). If the >> >modifications were too important, your submission is counted as "not ok". >> >> $_=pop returns the last argument, unless there's more magic under the >> bonnet. shift gets what you want. > > But if there's only one argument, the first argument is >also the last. And since pop is 3 character long and shift score >an incredibly prolix total of 5 characters...
Yuck. In that case I'm certainly down to 58, or 56 with something silly. But I think (after some sleep) I can improve on both--not bad for my first go at golf ;) Cheers!
