On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:43:36AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> >
> > Me likes. Lots. I propose, as alternative names for those two tokens,
> > the
> > "fat bat" (because it does look like a particularly rotund specimen of that
> > species, and in honor of the large value it yields) and the"laughing joker"
> > (as in, "just kidding, the rest of the line doesn't apply). :-)
>
> Of course, we now need canonical usage examples of those two.
>
One usage could combine them two. When you need to use the largest
possible integer on 32 bits, you can use them both. Of course, it's a
slight golf (1 character winned), but a real golfer will do much better.
2**32-1 # UINT_MAX
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^ # fat bat & laughing joker
~0 # golf hole
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The right answer is worthless with the wrong question!
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #88 (Epic))
