What general tips do you have for golfing in Starry? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Starry (e.g. "remove comments" is not an answer).
Please post one tip per answer.
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- 3\$\begingroup\$ Related. \$\endgroup\$Martin Ender– Martin Ender2016-10-18 21:42:42 +00:00Commented Oct 18, 2016 at 21:42
- \$\begingroup\$ There's a book on esolangs -- how interesting! \$\endgroup\$Luis Mendo– Luis Mendo2016-10-18 21:56:00 +00:00Commented Oct 18, 2016 at 21:56
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Use dup and add for large numbers
If you need to produce a big but reasonable number which is a multiple of 2 (and in some cases, even not a multiple), you can push half the number and end with +* (dup and add) instead of pushing the whole number. The threshold for this is 8 and above.
As mentioned, sometimes you can double, then subtract one (threshold 27), and with multiples of higher 2 powers it can be repeated to gain greater numbers.
