From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T11:21:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Symbolify (#169)

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Alex LeDonne" <aledonne.listmail@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Wouter Smeenk <woutersmeenk@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I managed to squeeze my solution in 19 characters and 23 with normal
>>> whitespace usage.
>>>
>>> Wouter Smeenk
>>
>> I found a 19-character, 23-with-whitespace solution as well, thanks to
>> your inspiring post, Wouter.
>>
>> My golfed solution which also handles negative numbers is 39
>> characters, 51 with whitespace.
>>
>> These both pass both of the provided tests - they really build
>> strings, as James indicated his does. No cheating here...
>
> Wow...  Nice...
>
> My ultra cheezy cheat version is 18 characters... I'm amazed
> people are coming up with such short non-cheat versions :)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
>

I, on the other hand, am looking forward to the various "cheating"
solutions. I re-learned some operator precedence rules solving this
the old fashioned way, but I expect I'll learn more from solutions
that produce, for example, zero-length strings, but still pass the
tests.

But then I've come to expect such wizardry from some of the submitters
to this quiz...

-A