Perl Christmas Quiz

[James Laver]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
>
> This concatenates the repeated elements into e.g. a single string. Try
> adding some extra fields in your test data and you'll end up with
> something like,
>
> ['q', 'pp', 'n']
>
> rather than
>
> ['q', 'p', 'p', 'n']
>
> Slightly oddly, IMO, python doesn't have a 'flatten' function.
>
> P
>

With all of these code-based things going on, I'm inclined to suggest
a more disturbing challenge - overcomplicating "hello world"

Here's my pitiful first attempt:

sub make_hello_sayer { sub { printf "hello %s\n", shift; } }
my $sayer = make_hello_sayer();
$sayer->('world');

I'm looking forward to the first entry that combines regexen with some
sort of tie.

Let the games begin.

--James