Inspired by some recent discussions on nesting trinary operators I set out to see what kind of a mess I could make (in a limited amount of space, of course). I didn't attempt to fit in as many trinaries as possible because I wanted to leave room for some other pranks as well. There are definately some strange idioms here.

If you sort through the code I hope you find it intreguing, as I definately found it so while composing it. 

$c=join':',qw/42 t 83 s 0 65 78 n s 72 d 82 0 O d 82 k 0 g 65 67 j 69
82 1 ;""tnirp/;while($c){($d=@{[split//,$n]})<8?$n:$b.=$d<8?chop$c:(
$e=${[split/:/,$c]}[0])=~/^\d+/?chr$e+32:++$e;$c=$b&&$c=~/(\d+|\w):(
.*)$/x?$2:$c;$n=!$c&&$n=~/(.+")(".)/?$1.$b.$/.$2:$n}eval$n

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I expect that running it through Deparse will help to sort it out. Let me know when you've got it unravled.

Enjoy!

Dave

"If I had my life to do over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein

In reply to Ternary disaster by davido

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