[kw-pm] Last night's meeting

[Max]

John Macdonald wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:39:38AM -0400, John Macdonald wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:29:20AM -0400, John Macdonald wrote:
>>
>> $ perl -e 'rand$.<1?$a=$_:1for<>;print$a' <alpha.html
>>
>> which is 29 chars.
>>     
>
> And to fill out my original argument against "cheating", if the
> size of command line switches other than -e is not counted in
> the rating system, then the solution:
>
> $ perl -M'-warnings;rand$.<1?$a=$_:1for<>;print$a' -e '' <alpha.html
>
> is a solution with 0 chars.
>   

I think the idea is that perl -e is free, anything else is counted.  (n, 
p, -M, etc.)