This looks deceptively easy. My code (which I believe is as short as possible) is 11 characters. (Perhaps this is unfair -- it's more like a "who can hit the ball where I hit it" challenge than a "who can hit the ball far" challenge.)

Goal: create a function that takes a list of strings as its arguments and returns the characters of those strings in reversed order. That's it! 

print R(123);       # 321
print R(12,34,56);  # 654321
sub R {...}         # <-- my best score: 11

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More than meets the eye. I'm betting a handful of you get an answer of 14 characters, but there might be a couple who slip through and figure out the trick to save a character, and another few to get it down to 11.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re: (Golf) Reversal
by MeowChow (Vicar) on May 02, 2001 at 08:55 UTC
    12 so far: 
    sub R {
  ''.reverse@_
}

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    Hmmm... here's an 11 character one that works on your examples, only because they are numbers: 
    sub R {
  0+reverse@_
}

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       MeowChow                                   
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      Ok. Now come up with an 11-character one that works for non-numbers. ;)
      Hint? I'm being a bit of a wise-ass, aren't I? ;)


      japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker
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