Stephen Turner wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Ton Hospel wrote: > > > In article <ajk1e1$tcq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ton Hospel) writes: > > > Try http://www.xs4all.nl/~thospel/golf/minigolf4.html > > > > And yet another one is finished. > > Looking at Ton and suo's solutions: > > ton 34 @a=0..30;@a[@ARGV]=();print<@a>.$/ > suo 34 @x=0..30;@x[@ARGV]=();print<@x>.$/ > > Can anyone explain the following? Or is it just one of those Perl quirks > that one frequently encounters when playing golf :-) ? > > % perl -e'@x=(st);print <@x>' > st > > % perl -e'$x="st";print <$x>' > > % perl -e'%x=(st=>1);print <%x>' > %x
You mean the fact that $ and @ are interpolated while % isn't or that a scalar inside <> is a file handle while an array inside <> is a glob? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
