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Re:The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42 by labster on Sunday May 13, 2018 @03:22PM (#17060482)
Like most code, this is way too easy in Perl 6.

    > perl6 -e 'say "Life, the Universe and Everything".WHY'
    42
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Re:The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42 by sideshowb on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:17AM (#17063447)
For non perl users - does this really work or are you being ironic?
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Re:The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42 by labster on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:37AM (#17063565)
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/src/core/Str.pm...

Oh, it works.

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Re:The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42 by sideshowb on Monday May 14, 2018 @04:08AM (#17063705)
Today I learned about meta methods. Thanks :)
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Re:The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42 by wongma on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:39PM (#17068730)
I searched for a Perl6 repl to try it on and it works! Perl is so whimsically fun. :)

https://tio.run/#perl6

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