Heh, this JAPH is inspiring a lot of discussion this time around. :)

The challenge behind this obfuscation was to write a JAPH that contained no letters, digits, parens, brackets, braces, or whitespace (other than the newlines).

 

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None of the variables are being used for their special purposes. For example, $~ and $^ are both used with formats, but there are no formats in this code. The JAPH would work just as well with alphabetic variable names, except that it wouldn't meet the challenge that way, of course. :)

By the way, all of the variables in this JAPH are interchangeable, except for one... Which variable could not have been used anywhere else in this obfuscation?

In reply to Re: How in the heck? by chipmunk
in thread How in the heck? by spaz

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