Re: (Golf) Let's go bowling

[rchiav]

Well this is my first golf, and I was pretty proud of it until I saw tilly's post. But then again, when doesn't he have the lowest score? :)

Anyway.. I'm sure this can be improved..

I'm not sure on the counting rules, but if it's everything inside the sub, not counting whitespace, it's 150

#!/usr/bin/perl
$|=1;
my @b = ('5', '/', '6', '3', 'X', 'X', '7', '0', '4', '3', 'X', '4', '
+/', '8', '1', '3', '/', '6');

$r = a(@b);
print "score is $r\n";

sub a {
    map {s/(\/|X)/10/} @_ ;
    while ($_ = shift) {
    if (/^.$/) {
            $t += ($_[0] == 10 ? $_[1] + shift : $_ + shift)
    }else{
            $t+= ($_[0] < 10 && $_[1] == 10 ? 20 : 10 + $_[0] + $_[1])
    }
    last if ++$f ==10
    }
    $t
}

update: original was missing the pound symbol on the first line.. nothing to do with the sub.. just mised it in the copy-n-paste. Also, put the exact array from the example in case someone thought it was giving the wrong answer

update II The sub inluding nesisairy whitespace is now 150..
update III removed a space I didn't think I could and removed the closing } from the count... 148

sub a {
map{s#(/|X)#10#}@_;while($_=shift){if(/10/){$t+=($_[0]<10&&$_[1]==10?2
+0:10+$_[0]+$_[1])}else{$t+=($_[0]==10?$_[1]+shift:$_+shift)}last if++
+$f==10}$t
}

update III same principle, just trimming it down..removed while loop and if statements.. 131

sub a {
map{s#(/|X)#10#}@_;for(1..10){$_=shift;/10/?{$t+=($_[0]<10&&$_[1]==10?
+20:10+$_[0]+$_[1])}:{$t+=($_[0]==10?$_[1]+shift:$_+shift)}}$t
}

yet anotherupdate IV: Got it down to 123. But as Tilly pointed out, it doesn't look like this runs on 5.005_03.. so I don't know what it's worth then. I have since tested this and it works on AIX with perl 5.005_03

sub a {
map{s#[/X]#10#}@_;for(0..9){$_=shift;/10/?$t+=$_[0]<10&&$_[1]==10?20:1
+0+$_[0]+$_[1]:($t+=$_[0]==10?$_[1]+shift:$_+shift)}$t
}

-Rich

[dragonchild]

I'm still choking on the map {} @_; ... I've got use 5.6.0; as my first line, so I know I'm not running 5.00x. But, if I change the map to:

@b=@_;
map {s#[X/]#10#} @b;
@_=@b;

Then, it works just fine. The error I'm getting is "Cannot modify a read-only variable." What's the about?

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[abstracts]

Hello

I'm using 5.6.2 and got that same error. I fixed it by doing:

@b=@_;@_=@b; # then preceed as usual

I bet the problem is that you are calling the function as

score(qw/X 6 5 7 9 ...../);

instead of:

@arr = qw/X 4 5 6 .../; score(@arr);

Map is modifying the content of the list (using s#...#10#). Passing a list (constant) to the sub makes @_ elements aliases to the values passed. This is just like saying

"helo" =~ s/l/ll/;

which does not make sense.

Did I make myself clear? Does it make sense?

Aziz,,,

[dragonchild]

Yes, you are correct! Wow, I didn't realize that could be an issue, though it makes perfect sense, once it's put into those terms.

Thanks! :)

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[dragonchild]

I'd hope it could be improved. It doesn't work too well. As is, it doesn't run. By changing the map{}@_; to @b=@_;map{}@b; and all the references to $_[] to $b[], it runs, but gives the wrong answers. It looks neat, though!

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[rchiav]

define "doesn't work"? it ran with many test cases for me..

update: downloaded my exact code posted here and ran it with the following games..

my @b = qw(X X X X X X X X X X 7 2);

[rchiav@aps:/home/rchiav]$ score
score is 286

my @b = qw(X X X X X X X X X X X X);

[rchiav@aps:/home/rchiav]$ score
score is 300

my @b = qw(X 9 / X 9 / X 9 / X 9 / X 9 / X);

[rchiav@aps:/home/rchiav]$ score
score is 200

and the actual example given in the description..
my @b = qw(5 / 6 3 X X 7 0 4 3 X 4 / 8 1 3 / 6);

[rchiav@aps:/home/rchiav]$ score
score is 146

If you could, please explain to me what's "not working".

[tilly]

I bet that you are running 5.6.x and the code is failing to run in 5.005_03. The reason is that the aliasing was a little more aggressive in 5.005_03.

Trust me. This is a bug I have hit quite often in golf.

(BTW the current leader on the score-board is chipmunk.)