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in thread Perl6 Contest: Test your Skills

dragonchild,
Right. With all due respect to thor, I believe the original problem was poorly stated (as perhaps was my challenge). I know the ultimate goal was only to determine if such a hand existed, but the process outlined by which to do it was to actually score each hand:

What I want to do is write a program that brute forces the issue. That is to say that I want to create a program that scores all 5-card hands that have a 5 in them and see what happens.

I would prefer that the actual score be tabulated since it is a harder problem, but I am fine with aborting from score() early if you know the score is going to be > 1. This is afterall not about verifying something we already know - it is about exposure to Perl6.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^5: Perl6 Contest: Test your Skills
by thor (Priest) on May 19, 2005 at 20:13 UTC
    Just as the point of the head post in this thread was to tackle the problem with p6, the point of my initial post was to create a scenario against which I could try creating an iterator. Unfortunately, eveyone got caught up in cribbage semantics. Oh well...I got out of it what I wanted...kind of.

    thor

    Feel the white light, the light within
    Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
    For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

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      thor,
      If you would like an explanation of how my iterator works (either the p5 or p6 version), I would be happy to explain. It may not be very clear because I translated a process of doing it by hand on paper to code. There is also the tutorial (How To: Make An Iterator) on building iterators I wrote recently and Roy Johnson's recent Recursively-generated Iterators.

      Cheers - L~R

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        What I'm trying to do is the opposite: transform the code in this node and convert it to paper. Of course, I'm trying to do this in spare cycles, so it may not happen overnight. I appreciate the offer. :)

        thor

        Feel the white light, the light within
        Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
        For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

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