LPM: Silly string question

[Mik Firestone]

If we are counting keystrokes, this is roughly equivalent but it doesn't
destroy the symmetry as much:
  print "Size: $width\x78$height.\n";

I somehow don't think either symmetry nor keystrokes is enough to forgive this
ugliness, though.  :)


On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Rich Bowen wrote:

> David Hempy wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, I want to print the size of an image, so I write:
> > 
> >         print "Size: $width x $height.\n";
> > 
> > ...but I'd rather not have the spaces around the "x".  Of course, the
> > following does not work:
> > 
> >         print "Size: $widthx$height.\n";
> > 
> > So I ended up doing this:
> > 
> >         print "Size: $width" . "x$height.\n";
> > 
> > Which is fine and dandy, but requires seven extra keystrokes (including
> > shifts).  My goal in my professional life is to reduce the total number of
> > keystrokes my fingers must endure.  Is there some "end of identifier"
> > operator or other perl magic that might fill the bill?
> > 
> > Lazily yours,
> > -dave  ;-)
> 
> I tried the following:
> 
> perl -e '$foo = "one"; $bar="two"; print "${foo}X${bar}\n";'
> oneXtwo
> 
> It reduces your total character count, but if you are counting shift, it
> increases your key strokes.
> 
> One could also do:
> 
> perl -e '$foo = "one"; $bar="two"; print "${foo}X$bar\n";'
> oneXtwo
> 
> Which does in fact reduce keystrokes, but looks a little less symmetric.
> 
> Rich
> 

-- 
Mik Firestone fireston at lexmark.com
When I become an Evil Overlord:
I will not waste time making my enemy's death look like an accident:  I'm not
accountable to anyone and my other enemies wouldn't believe it.