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Re: Re: (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization

by AidanLee (Chaplain)
on Mar 15, 2002 at 14:16 UTC ( [id://151984]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization
in thread (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization

I think i'm getting the hang of this. Here's 90:

sub f{%h=@_;for(values %h){for(@$_){$h{$_}||=[]}} sort{(grep /^$b$/,@{$h{$a}})?1:-1}keys%h}

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Re (tilly) 3: (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 15, 2002 at 15:50 UTC
    Nice idea.

    A few minor nits though. First is that it is customary to only count the body of the sub, so you actually did slightly better than you thought! A second minor issue is that your grep is not quite right - the string "fooey\n" will match /^fooey$/ so you don't really have an equality test.

    Further than that, there are some mechanical tricks that can be used to improve scores. Such as using an inline for loop, using map to avoid double loops, and the like. Using those I can take your answer to 75 fairly easily:

    sub f{ #23456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_ +12345 %h=@_;$h{$_}||=[]for map@$_,values%h;sort{-1+2*grep$_ eq$b,@{$h{$a}}}k +eys%h }

    UPDATE
    Oops. I didn't notice the lack of transitivity in your code. This is a fatal flaw as you see with the following data set.

    my @list = ( a => ['b'], b => ['c'], c => ['d'], d => ['e'], );
Re: Re: Re: (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization
by Sidhekin (Priest) on Mar 15, 2002 at 15:16 UTC

    Assuming the test harness provided, I doubt anyone can beat this:

    sub f{d,c,b,a,f,e}

    Try this for a test harness:

    my @list = ( a => [ 'b', 'c', 'e' ], b => [ 'd' ], c => [ 'b', 'd' ], f => [ 'a' ], ); print join (',', map { "'$_'" } f(@list)),"\n";

    Your code produces 'd','b','c','f','e','a', which does not reflect the fact that 'f' depends on 'a'.

    So, I am afraid your solution holds only for a limited set of test harnesses -- and is certainly not the shortest among such solutions.

    The Sidhekin
    print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"

Re: Re: Re: (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization
by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 15, 2002 at 15:00 UTC

    I hope you don't mind me removing a few bytes:

    sub f{for(values(%h=@_)){$h{$_}||=[]for@$_}sort{(grep/^$b$/,@{$h{$a}}) +||-1}keys%h}
    (Note: I didn't test)

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      If you test, you will find it doesn't compile.

        If you test, you will find it doesn't compile.

        Perl doesn't DWIM :(
        It was worth a try, it was not worth a post. I should have tested first.

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