Lars Henrik Mathiesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After looking at the postmortem, I don't quite understand why
> BoB didn't come up with something like this for 61.44:
>
> map!s/
> ^/ /m|//||print,sort%/for map$/{_,sort/./g}.=$_,sort<>
>
> Trying the various punctuation characters as names for the hash
> was actually going to be my next trick, if I was desparate for a
> tie breaker, but of course that's easy to say now.
BoB did use %% for the hash, which is just as good as %/, as
well as o for the start of the hash key, which is just as good
as _. The thing that lowers the tiebreaker in your suggestion
is really the use of ^ and the /m modifier in place of \b,
which allows you to eliminate \ and b while introducing only ^
as a new character (m was already in map).
Congratulations on your win!
--
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC
