Re: Hamming minigolf post mortem

[email protected] (Juho Snellman)
Newsgroups perl.golf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 05:29:23PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Daniel Tuijnman <[email protected]> writes: 
> > I was quite surprised to see such a clean and elegant algorithm as your
> > 67 post-mortem reach so high. No Perl trickery at all going on here!
> 
> I'm surprised to see that we were only two trying to delete exchange
> <=> for a simple > in the sorting. By the documentation is isn't
> guaranteed to work but that doesn't usually stop golfers.

Attempting != succeeding. The > doesn't work reliably when you're
interested in any elements except the smallest one. I tried >, found
out that it didn't work, and moved on. Probably others did too.

-- 
Juho Snellman
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