in reply to Perl Weekly Challenge 206 with List::Util

For the second task, it looks to me like you want to choose ...

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Edited: I misread the task.

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Re^2: Perl Weekly Challenge 206 with List::Util
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 17, 2023 at 18:06 UTC
    Are you saying descending is better than ascending? 🤷🏻‍♂️

    The task guaranties even numbered lists, and it doesn't matter in which direction I sum up.

    Tho I could have avoided sum map ... pairs with a for loop and a

    • $sum += $_ if ++$i % 2

    inside, hence avoiding the dependency on List::Util

    Cheers Rolf
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      My apologies, I misread the question: somehow I got it into my head that we wanted the sum of at most two numbers.

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