Re: Some random reflections on tpr05a

Eugene van der Pijll <[email protected]> writes:

> In fact, this month's hole was so difficult that after a days work I
> still had no working solution. Unfortunately, my attempts failed at
> the longest test, and I nearly gave up on this hole. Only my
> embarrasment on being in the sandtrap forced me to stay in the race.

I didn't enter this month (after 3 or 4 months of not playing) because
I couldn't come up with a solution I could submit.  A day spent
playing with recursive regexes got nothing better than being able to
make Perl segfault; after a day's break I came up with a
Parse::RecDescent solution that worked, but was of course not suitable
for submitting, and I toyed with further regex approaches for a day or
two before deciding I simply didn't have the time to dedicate to
finding a solution that wasn't going to get me back into the game.

That said, I'm sure I could have come up with something suitable if
I'd worked more, and I like this month's hole for not being needlessly
abitrary; sometimes I feel as though a hole relies on specifying the
form of the output too stringently.
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