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  • swlabrEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago
    a,b, not much to say

    The hardest part has finding the right dart ascii library to use (by default dart treats everything as UTF-16, which is horrible for this sort of thing) and the right data structure (linked hash map, which is a map that remembers insertion order.)

    • geriksonOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago
      spoiler

      “you have linked hash maps? LUXURY!”

      In my code I had to resort to this sorting

      for my $lens ( sort { $Boxes->[$idx]{$a}{pos} <=> $Boxes->[$idx]{$b}{pos} }  keys %{ $Boxes->[$idx] } )

      Perl at its best!

      • swlabrEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I am so mad that I don’t know Perl, honestly.

        • geriksonOPEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          It’s a nice language! And I believe it’s what AoC is made in. Certainly a lot of stuff seems tailor-made for the language.