Re: Re: PHP Brain Teasers

Jay Blanchard wrote:

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<?php function think($i) { TRUE == $i ? 'self-aware' : 'cow'; $return($i);

$return($i); ?? You sure about that one? [/snip] *applause* We have a thinker here ladies and gentlemen! OK Stut, for

the

$10,000 bonus....what should you return here and what is the least amount of code you can do it in?

I'm not sure here, but are you being sarcastic? ;) Ignoring the extra $ and moving on... I would code it like this... function think(&$i) {

     $i = 'am';

} If I call think, then I am thinking, therefore $i should become 'am'. If you return 'am' rather than changing $i IMHO you're deviating from the spec. [/snip] No sarcasm at all. And you are spot on!

Or how about a very dangerous OOP version... class I {

    public function think()
    {
        $this = 'am';
    }

} -Stut -- http://stut.net/