Geeks wanted (neat job application puzzle)

Re:Geeks wanted (neat job application puzzle) by lojic on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @02:27AM (#56747)

Looks pretty close to Ruby: 1) remove semi-colons 2) replace a = b - - with a = b followed by b -= 1 3) while (z) { .. } with while (z) ... end

However the if modifier (if it works as in Ruby) doesn't work out very well. I haven't touched Perl in 9 years, so I don't know how different the operator precedence is if at all.

What's the deal with the if? Is it a regular modifier?

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Re:Geeks wanted (neat job application puzzle) by lojic on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @02:38AM (#56753)

Oh yeah, Ruby has a slightly different interpretation of true/false, so I changed while(z) to while (z != 0) - likewise with if. No help though :(

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Re:Geeks wanted (neat job application puzzle) by lojic on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @03:05AM (#56759)

Yeah baby! I missed one true/false Ruby idiosyncracy, and that did the trick :)

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Re:Geeks wanted (neat job application puzzle) by benhoyt on Thursday September 20, 2007 @07:54PM (#57690)

Think "Forth", "RPN", that sort of thing. It got me for a while too.

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