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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spoiler

"you have linked hash maps? LUXURY!"

In my code I had to resort to this sorting

for my $lens ( sort { $Boxes->[$idx]{$a}{pos} &lt;=> $Boxes->[$idx]{$b}{pos} }  keys %{ $Boxes->[$idx] } )

Perl at its best!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am so mad that I don’t know Perl, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a nice language! And I believe it's what AoC is made in. Certainly a lot of stuff seems tailor-made for the language.