* Michael W Thelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-29 13:11]: > * Mtv Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-25 13:59]: > > New day, new golf "Automatic Editing": > > > > http://209.237.255.144/~pgas/score.pl?func=rules&hole=42&season=1 > > Just a clarification on the rules: are there restrictions on the nature of the > "find" and "replace" substrings to avoid infinite substitutions? For example, > applying a substituion "a" -> "ab" would lead to an infinite substitution if > the string contained "a". I assume this input is disallowed, but I wanted to > make sure. Is that right?
Hmm, never mind me, I guess I didn't read the rules very carefully... this is precluded by the restriction that the string will never grow larger than 255 characters during the process of applying the substitutions. Carry on! -- Mike -- Michael W. Thelen #define SIGILL 6 /* blech */ --Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code