[AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Re: Computer prose

You have way too much time on your hands.

;)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Good point, Stuart! Maybe we should initiate a contest harking back to the
> original Dr. Dobb's Code Obfuscation contest, in which readers were invited
> to submit incomprehensible c code. Let's have a contest for incomprehensible
> VBA code!
> Contest rules:
> 1. You must provide an installable file for puzzlers that installs and works
> out of the zip file.
> 2. It must do something magical that is not readily comprehended.
> 3. It must run successfully on any Access platform. Versions and References
> must be thoroughly documented, so that any challenger can duplicate the
> situation and then attempt to comprehend the code.
> 4. No code-hiding is permitted. Everything must be available for inspection
> and deduction and so on.
> 
> Given that this group concentrates on Access, let's confine the initial
> contest to VBA code, I suggest, and let's see where it spins from this
> starting point. This gives us tools such as Single-Step, Stack Inspection,
> etc. so that we can investigate what the code actually does step by step,
> what procs call what others, etc.
> 
> I would think it only fair in such a competition that Option Explicit be
> declared so no "changing datatype" sleight-of-hand is permitted, as well as
> no statements such as "Declare lngAddress As String" -- both of which I deem
> beneath the dignity of this contest.
> 
> Anyone interested in playing this contest?
> 
> A.