Hello Riley!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riley) wrote:
> ...But I'm having trouble understanding the winning
> solution:
>
> -p0 $_=reverse,s/\.(?=(.{$&}x)+.{$&}o)/*/swhile$^C+=9870=~/./g
There are some buildin variables that behave not like usual
perl variables since they are represented by some internal fixed form,
like for example $^C and $^H that are bytes.
So when you modify these vars, their values are bounded by this
internal form. $^C default value is 0, it grows when you increase it
but only until 127. It becomes -128 after that due to sign,
and then increases until 0 again.
'something while++$^C' becomes a loop, like in "go" golf
http://terje.perlgolf.org/wsp/pgas/score.pl?func=solution&hole=11&season=0
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P.S. Riley, my email replies to you were bounced.
