I'll come in at 153 characters. I'm sure it has to be better than that ... I'm using too many temp vars.
Updated: Forgot to change my datastructure from a hash of hashes to a hash of arrays. That caused the bug jarich noticed. ++!
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
my %tree = (
'larger than a breadbox' => [
'cat',
'giraffe',
],
);
sub a {
print 'Is your animal ', shift, "?\n";
my $answer = <STDIN>;
chomp $answer;
return 1 if $answer =~ /y/i;
return 0;
}
sub t {
print "What is your animal?\n";
my $answer = <STDIN>;
chomp $answer;
return $answer;
}
sub i {
my ($g, $u) = @_;
print "What is a question that is true for $u, but false for $g?\n
+";
my $answer = <STDIN>;
chomp $answer;
$answer =~ s/Is your animal //;
return $answer;
}
sub w {
print "Do you want to continue?\n";
my $answer = <STDIN>;
chomp $answer;
return 1 if $answer =~ /y/i;
return 0;
}
#234567890#234567890#234567890#234567890#234567890#234567890#234567890
+#234567890
sub f {
($s,%t)=@_;$q=$s;do{{$v=a($q);$a=$t{$q}[$v];$q=$a,redo if$t{$a};$q=$s,
+next if a(
$a);$n=&t;$o=i($a,$n);$t{$o}=[$t{$q}[$v],$n];$t{$q}[$v]=$o;$q=$s}}whil
+e&w
}
f( 'larger than a breadbox',%tree);
__END__
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