in reply to Golf: Back to those damn beer bottles again...

Oooh - that's a fun squeeze. I missed the last lot, so I thought I'd join in here. Even on the 99 bottles site, opinion seems to be divided as to whether it's "Take one down, pass it around" or "Take one down *and* pass it around" - 3 bytes is important in this game....:) Anyway, here's a gramamatically correct one weighing in at 156 bytes with the 'and'. 
$n=99;warn $b=&b,$w=" on the wall",", $b,\nTake one down and pass it a
+round,\n".&b(--$n)."$w.\n"while$n;sub b{$s=$n-1?'s':'';($n||'No')." b
+ottle$s of beer"}

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Maybe there should be an ISO '99 bottles' standard to establish these important questions of 'and' or ',', 'No' or '0', plurals, CRs etc.. :)

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Re: Golf: Back to those damn beer bottles again...
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Mar 17, 2003 at 23:07 UTC
    You obviously didn't look too closely at my attempt! Shaved another 3 bytes of by predeclaring the sub before use, making the & optional: and shaved a space after the warn...

    And if we cheat with the 'and' and the 'one' :), we get down to 149 ;-) 

    sub b{$s=$n-1?'s':'';($n||'No')." bottle$s of beer"}$n=99;warn$b=b,$w=
+" on the wall",", $b,\nTake 1 down & pass it around,\n".b(--$n)."$w.\
+n"while$n;

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    cLive ;-)
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      lol - no - I got so wrapped up in everybody elses attempts in the previously-referenced nodes that I missed the fact I'd written a virtual dupe of yours (other than the plural handling) :) I reckon you should replace the '1' and '&' cheats and declare yourself a winner with 153...though there's still something smelly about the bottle(s) - I'm convinced there's shaving to be done there somewhere...
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