From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T12:34:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Symbolify (#169)


From: "Alex LeDonne" <aledonne.listmail@gmail.com>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
>>
>> My ultra cheezy cheat version is 18 characters... I'm amazed
>> people are coming up with such short non-cheat versions :)
>
> 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...

Although I'd mulled over a slightly more clever cheat, I went
with a totally unclever, groan-inducing approach.  It's a
Kobayashi Maru solution... <grin>

(c.f. http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_kobayashi.jpg )


On the other hand, my non-cheat solution is currently 70
characters, with whitespace squeezed out... :/

And it has to run with `ulimit -s unlimited` or it will die with
(eval):1: stack level too deep (SystemStackError) before it even
gets to 1000.... lol

Oh well . . . :)


Regards,

Bill