Re: ASCII Art

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Patrick,


> I just discovered an interesting Lua syntax feature.
> Provided you define that simple function :
> 
>   function _() return _ end
> 
> The following code actually compiles and executes without error :
> 
>   _() ()
> 
> You can of course pass dummy arguments to _ function :
> 
>   _(___)(_,_)
> 
> And since you can omit parentheses on functions calls with table constructors and literal strings:
> 
>   _{} "" '' [[  ]]
> 
> You should be able to draw beautiful Lua program in ASCII Art.
> 
>        _(
>       _)()
>      {".."}
>     (_,{}){}
>    '////\\\\'
>   {}(){___}[=[
>  ::--.--::]=](_)
> 
> The main problem being that I have always be very bad for drawing :-(

That just made my day... ;)

We are just minutes away from proposing the "Obfuscated Lua Contest" (and I assume you know about the "Obfuscated C Contest" ;)

Cheers,
Marc