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Aristotle
<p>The semicolon is an interesting case. I'm leaning towards not counting it, as I can't think of a case where the shorter of two solutions would turn out to be longer depending on semicolon sensitivity. If such a case exists, this would take further thought.</p>
<p>As for automated counting, my idle musing was to abuse the [http://perltidy.sf.net|Perltidy] code for that purpose.</p>
<p>I don't like the Benchmark.pm idea - you'd have to specify the exact environment (Perl version+patches, OS, hardware, modules' versions) to be able to decide on a reproducibly and unambiguously winning entry. It's just too fickle a goal.</p>
<p align="right"><em>Makeshifts last the longest.</em></p>
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