Re: Hamming minigolf post mortem

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 08:51:45PM +0300, Juho Snellman wrote:
> 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.

In my algorithm and Peter's, you're only interested in the smallest number,
so that applies. There are a lot of other submissions that could have
profited from this too.

-- 
Daniël Tuijnman
[email protected]