Another idea would be to have a hash for every move. In other words, instead of: 
my %bad = (
          '12598' => {},   # data about bad sequence
          '19203' => {},   # data about other bad sequence
      )

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you could have something like: 
$bad->{1}{2}{5}{9}{8} = 0;

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That way, you could keep a pointer to the current move history just by looking up each move as it's made, and keeping a variable with the last lookup value in it. (Of course, that won't work if you're implementing this as a CGI, but...) Then, the program can just check to see if 8 would be a bad move by seeing if $move->{8} is equal to zero.

For a full discussion and mini-rant on the subject of having variables named at runtime, see Mark-Jason Dominus' article on the subject here: http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/varvarname.html

stephen

In reply to Re: multidimensional arrays by stephen
in thread multidimensional arrays by nascent

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