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Re^2: Beyond Golf - reading between the tokensby Aristotle (Chancellor) |
on Dec 28, 2002 at 01:39 UTC ( [id://222664]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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. As for automated counting, my idle musing was to abuse the Perltidy code for that purpose. 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. Makeshifts last the longest.
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