Timeline for Shortest string expressions stable under deleting quotes
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| Jan 11, 2014 at 12:02 | comment | added | Mikaël Mayer | I updated the question: "Both programs should return strings." | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 16:49 | comment | added | Joe Z. | @boothby: assuming your typing speed is the same as mine, about 0.15 seconds per invocation of w. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 11:00 | comment | added | MvG | @PeterTaylor: The way I read it, it asks for an expression which can be interpreted in two ways with the same meaning either way. So the expression above will do that. It is when you type that expression as the sole argument on an otherwise empty command line that the expression gets interpreted as a command name and executed. You could just as well use that expression as an argument to something else, e.g. to echo. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 10:47 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | The question doesn't ask you to execute a command, it asks you to return a string. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 6:49 | comment | added | boothby | Seriously?!? How many seconds of my life have been wasted typing who? | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 19:22 | history | answered | MvG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |