Re: PHP Brain Teasers

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On 6/26/07, Tijnema <tijnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/26/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>    What the hell?  Why not start a thread that can be fun and
> challenging for all of us.  It's something I haven't seen done
> anywhere else yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has been.  Let's
> put together some names, phrases, and other stuff expressed as PHP
> code and see who can come up with a real stumper.  For example:
>
> <?
>    while($u_work) {
>        whistle();
>    }
> ?>
>
>    .... would be "Whistle While You Work."
>
>    Try to use some really common phrases that all of us around the
> world should recognize, but feel free to get really elaborate with the
> code.
>
>    So here's the first one (it's simple):

Yes, of course, call it simple... :P It took me 20 minutes to figure
it out :S :P

>
> <?
>
> function at($level) {
>        $level == 10 ? $ret = "winner" : '';
>        $level == 15 ? $ret = "try" : '';
>        $level == 20 ? $ret = "first" : '';
>        $level == 25 ? $ret = "user" : '';
>        $level == 30 ? $ret = "place" : '';
>        $level == 35 ? $ret = "again" : '';
>        $level == 40 ? $ret = "succeed" : '';
>        $level == 45 ? $ret = "last" : '';
>        $level == 50 ? $ret = "finish" : '';
>        return $ret;
> }
>
> if(at(20) != "succeed") {
>        try {
>                $e = "again";
>                throw new Exception($e);
>        } catch(Exception $e) {
>                echo "Try ".$e->getMessage()."\n";
>        }
> }
> ?>
>
> --
> Daniel P. Brown

Oh, and how do we make such things? Is there a manual about them? :P

TIjnema


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   No, I just made some stuff up.  I thought it could be fun, and a
decent exercise in coding.

   Jim, I didn't get any parse errors when I tested it, it just
output the stuff.  You're right though.... that is what they say....

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