in reply to How in the heck?

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?

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Re: Re: How in the heck?
by spaz (Pilgrim) on Mar 18, 2001 at 02:46 UTC
      None of the variables are being used for their special purposes.

    Thank you so muh chipmunk, as usual you're very helpful, ++.
    The problem I had was my attempt at seeing how the variables special meanings were being used, and reading | as || (bit-wise OR vs. logial OR).

    Thank you everybody for your help, I now "get it", at least a bit more :)

    -- Dave
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