No, Sir.

It is not prefix(hello, hello), but prefix(haughtiness, hello) etc. haughtiness, humanoid and hello have the prefix 'h' in common, and the 'ello' is provided by the words output in the suffix section. Run the prefix() sub passing it (qw(hello hello)) and you will get no return value.

So (humanoid hello, haughtiness, cello) is a valid tuple. The presence of 'hello' in the prefix section is an artifact of the implementation... er, bug ;-)

--shmem

In reply to Re^7: Challenge: prefix($x, $y) . suffix($x, $z) eq $x by shmem
in thread Challenge: prefix($x, $y) . suffix($x, $z) eq $x by Limbic~Region

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