g()('al')
g()('al') is a challenge whereby you need to write in as many languages as
possible code which enables the code g()('al') to return the string "goal",
the code g()()('al') to return the string "gooal", the code g()()()('al')
return the string "goooal", etc.
g()('al') is the creation of acruikshank who originally posed it as a
functional programming challenge. Extensive stubbornness
and misinterpretation led to its current form.
Rules
- You are encouraged to break the rules, cleverly.
- When executed, the solution must print "goal" with sufficient o's to
demonstrate the program's functionality. - The code
g()('al')must appear in the source. g()('al')must not be a string literal.'al'must be a string, or your language's equivalent thereof. You may
use your language's standard method of creating a string (e.x. C should
use", ruby may use either"or').g()('al')must be a valid rvalue if applicable in your language.g()('al')may not print the string. If returning a string cannot be done
in your language, you should submit rationale as to why this is impossible
for a solution which prints a string to be accepted.- You must be able to insert an arbitrary number of
()calls without
modification to your solution. Therefore solutions like
this are incorrect. g('al')must return"gal".
If you see a complete solution that breaks any of these rules, file a bug!
If you have a solution that is close, but does not meet these rules, submit it
anyway. A close and interesting solution is better than no solution.
Previous Solutions
The more exciting solutions are original, not applying techniques that have
already been discovered. The following broadly applicable techniques have
already been discovered:
Languages, Solved, Incomplete, :-------------:, :----------------------:, :---------------------:, ActionScript, •, Befunge, •, Brainfuck, •, C, •, C#, •, C++, •, Clojure, •, Coffeescript, •, Common Lisp, •, D, •, Dart, •, DYLD, •, Emacs Lisp, •, English, •, Finite State Transducer, •, Forth, •, GNU Octave, •, Go, •, Groovy, •, Haskell, •, Haxe, •, IO, •, Java, •, JavaScript, •, Julia, •, Lua, •, Mathematica, •, Nimrod, •, OCaml, •, Objective-J, •, PHP, •, PHP 7, •, Perl, •, Perl 6, •, Python, •, R, •, Regexp, •, Ruby, •, Scala, •, Scheme, •, Sed, •, Bourne Shell, •, TCL, •, XP, •, ZSH, •, Help out, add some more languages!
g()('lf')
Lets play golf! Submit a pull-request with a shorter solution for an already
solved language and you can get the title of shortest, as shown in that
language's README.
Note: I'm not done making READMEs for all the languages yet. Don't let that stop
you!
Editor's Picks
These are some of the editor's favorite submissions:
- Befunge solution by arcovion
- C solution by tolmasky
- C++ solution by derrickturk
- C# solution by scorpiona with an explanation
- Finite State Transducer solution by zippy-white
- Dynamic Linker solution by eatnumber1
- Haskell solution by capicue with an explanation
- Java solution by lawl with an explanation
- Nimrod solution by dom96
- Perl solution by worr with an explanation
- SH incomplete solution by csandreasen
- ZSH solution by o11c with an explanation