#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my %piles = (A => [reverse 1..3], B => [], C => []); dumpPiles (); hanoi (scalar @{$piles{A}}, keys %piles); sub hanoi { my ($n, $start, $end, $extra) = @_; dumpStack (); if ($n == 1) { report ($start, $end); } else { hanoi($n-1, $start, $extra, $end); report ($start, $end); hanoi($n-1, $extra, $end, $start); } print "Exiting<\n"; } sub report { my ($start, $end) = @_; my $disk = pop @{$piles{$start}}; print "Moved disk $disk from $start to $end.\n"; push @{$piles{$end}}, $disk; dumpPiles (); } sub dumpPiles { for my $pile (sort keys %piles) { print "$pile: @{$piles{$pile}}\n"; } print "\n"; } sub dumpStack { my $index = 1; # Don't care where dumpStack was called so start at 1 my @stack; while ((my @params) = caller $index++) { unshift @stack, $params[2]; } print "Entered> @stack\n"; }