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merlyn your number two is _way_ too complex 
@array[$_,-$_-1]=@array[-$_-1,$_] for 0..@array/2;

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As has been pointed out the above is incorrect. 
@array[$_,-$_-1]=@array[-$_-1,$_] for 0..$#array/2;

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Is what it should have been

I must have been halucinating when I tested it.

But frankly I stand by my too complex comment regardless.

Yves / DeMerphq
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Re: Re: •SPOILERS Re: (OT) Interview questions -- your response?
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Sep 03, 2002 at 19:28 UTC

    Fencepost error. I think you mean:

    @array[$_,-$_-1]=@array[-$_-1,$_] for 0..$#array/2;

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    The middle pair was swapped twice to no effect for even sized arrays, the middle element swapped with itself for odd.

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

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      I actually did #2 the way I did to avoid a fencepost error. And it's proveably correct.

      And think of the maintenance programmer. I'd not want to maintain your code.

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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      Busted.

      Oh well.

      I guess I didn't get the job.

      Yves / DeMerphq
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      Software Engineering is Programming when you can't. -- E. W. Dijkstra (RIP)

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Re: Re: •SPOILERS Re: (OT) Interview questions -- your response?
by Dog and Pony (Priest) on Sep 03, 2002 at 19:18 UTC
    Why not go for truly ugly? ;-) 
    @array[0..$#array] = @array[map{-$_}(1..@array)];

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    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Re: Re: •SPOILERS Re: (OT) Interview questions -- your response?
by ignatz (Vicar) on Sep 03, 2002 at 19:31 UTC
    I'm not sure if treating an interview question like a golf challenge is such a good idea. Well... this guy was good, but this other guy did it in just 14 characters. Not gonna happen. ;-) 
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Re: Re: SPOILERS Re: (OT) Interview questions -- your response?
by perrin (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 19:49 UTC
    I like merlyn's answer because it's readable, even by people who are not hardcore perl programmers. It's not tricky, but it doesn't need to be.
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      Actually I disagree quite strongly. Its readable by people with a C background (ie who are used to the while() loops being disguised as for() loops) but to people who come from other backgrounds (such as Pascal) I think the above would cause some palpatations on first reading.

      Yves / DeMerphq
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      Software Engineering is Programming when you can't. -- E. W. Dijkstra (RIP)

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Re: Re: •SPOILERS Re: (OT) Interview questions -- your response?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 21:49 UTC
    In Perl6, will ~= between two lists give their intersection in list context?
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