[OT] golf

Nicholas Clark nick at ccl4.org
Tue Mar 4 18:53:00 GMT 2008


OK, this is going to be one of those things that people try to claim gets
Perl a reputation for line noise, but pedants should note that every
character here other than the space is in the set of portable file names...

Anyway, is there a shorter way to write

    perl -0777lp015e0

?

[What it does is quite cynically left as an exercise to the reader. :-)]

I'm sure the approach was used in an obfuscated Perl contest winner, but I
also have this memory that theirs was shorter.

Nicholas Clark


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