I have the numbers 1 to n UPDATE: n is always a multiple of four.

I want to arrange them in the order "highest, lowest, next-lowest, next-highest, next-highest, next-lowest, etc".

For instance, with the numbers one to eight I want "8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5".

This code gets the job done, but I feel it's clunky. Anyone got a smarter way? 

my @array       = ( 1 .. 8 );
my @other_array = ();

while (@array) {
    if ( $array[0] % 2 ) {
        push( @other_array, pop(@array), shift(@array) );
    } else {
        push( @other_array, shift(@array), pop(@array) );
    }
}

print "@other_array";

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In reply to Golf/Perlish solution to this problem? by Cody Pendant

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