Hi, Community!

Last weekend we held the Final of InterSystems Contest on InterSystems Caché and DeepSee as a part of IT Planet Student Championship in Sochi. BTW, this year we had about 2 000 participants in InterSystems Contest.

One of the tasks for the finals was to solve the following  with Caché ObjectScript and use the minimum code. 

Problem description

Write a method that would return the string 9876543210, however cls code should not contain numbers 0-9.

The goal is to write the shortest method.

Here's a method signature (it can't be modified):

ClassMethod main() As %String

USER>write ##class(ITPlanet.Task2).main()
9876543210

Also, here's the code to  check your result's length:

ClassMethod length(class = {$classname()}, method = "main") As %Integer
{
    #dim methodObj As %Dictionary.MethodDefinition
    set methodObj = ##class(%Dictionary.MethodDefinition).IDKEYOpen(class, method)
    quit methodObj.Implementation.Size
}

The best result was 25.

What's yours? ;)