Landon Curt Noll
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While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic TAB indentation within markdown files. After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB characters. And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that might have on the HTML files they produce. Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round** formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by problematic ASCII TAB characters. Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading TAB characters within markdown files. TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
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To build:
make
To use:
./litmaath some text
There is an alternate version provided. See the Alternate code section below.
Try:
./litmaath eschew obfuscation
Alternate code:
This alternate code, added to help understand the entry and for fun, is code that we suggested at the time of the entry publication but which we never put in a file.
Alternate build:
make alt
Use litmaath.alt as you would litmaath above.
Alternate try:
./litmaath.alt six was afraid of seven because seven eight nine
Judges' remarks:
Note the unusual structure:
while (<condition>)
;
Did you notice that the body is empty?
Furthermore, it's interesting to note that only two variables are used to achieve everything.
The best one can do to understand how the program works is to give it
two small strings as arguments, and follow the program closely. One
could make the body of the while loop an fprintf with interesting
variables like:
fprintf(stderr,
"argv=%lo *argv=%lo **argv=%c argv[1]=%lo *argv[1]=%c argc=%d\n",
(long) argv, (long) *argv, *argv && **argv ? **argv : '@',
(long) argv[1], argv[1] && *argv[1] ? *argv[1] : '@', argc);
... which is what the alternate code is.
Author's remarks:
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