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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
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Date: 17 Mar 89 14:35:00 GMT
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>main(n,m){for(scanf("%d",&m);m>1&m<10;n*=m--);
>printf(m-1?"error\n":"answer is %d\n",n);}

May  I ask: main(n,m){
This looks a bit odd - no declarations for n and m. Doesn't that
make them "ints"? That is fine for n, BUT isn't the second argument
to main a char * something[]?  I would suspect that this example would
crash in Technicolor flames as often as not.




>How about some beautiful elegant self-documenting C contests instead of
>portmanteau obfuscatory unreadable ones?

To which I would like to add: 100% legal ANSI C (with no trigraphs :-) ).