Re: Battle script

Weird,

I believe one could come up with pretty much anything and it'll fit your description. Just the other day I wrote this line of code,

my $max_lines = 100;
. . .
while ($line--) {
  . . .
  # do stuff
  . . .
}
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So, basically, variable $max_lines leaves variable $line in the dumps if you consider $line-- as a variable loosing HP, {GRIN}.

UPDATE:

Or how abut this:

my $playera = 100;
my $playerb = 100;
print "player A HP | player B HP\n";
while (1) {
  $playera -= rand(10);
  $playerb -= rand(10);
  print "$playera | $playerb\n";
  die (($playera < $playerb) ? "player A lost!" : "player B lost!") 
    if ($playera < 0 || $playerb < 0);
}
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This 'game' playes out as follows:

player A HP | player B HP
94.0023803710938 | 99.3478393554688
88.4292602539063 | 96.0552978515625
88.1494140625 | 94.9520874023438
86.5380859375 | 93.8046264648438
82.1652221679688 | 84.6536254882813
75.5804443359375 | 76.0702514648438
69.7055053710938 | 75.4898071289063
67.3040771484375 | 68.40087890625
63.6215209960938 | 64.7930908203125
58.9315795898438 | 60.8502197265625
50.4647827148438 | 57.1435546875
40.8901977539063 | 49.0029907226563
34.7552490234375 | 39.5355224609375
27.4127197265625 | 33.8937377929688
24.0670776367188 | 31.5869140625
19.4973754882813 | 22.3440551757813
10.3622436523438 | 14.5086669921875
9.0966796875 | 11.1148071289063
7.37579345703125 | 9.4158935546875
2.77679443359375 | 0.14801025390625
-1.7657470703125 | -7.55615234375
player B lost! at temp.pl line 11.
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you says: "The barer the bones, the better"

I guess my code is as 'bare' as you can get (unless some monk out there wants to challange me)! ;-)

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$"=q;grep;;$,=q"grep";for(`find . -name ".saves*~"`){s;$/;;;/(.*-(\d+)
+-.*)$/;
$_=["ps -e -o pid | "," $2 | "," -v "," "];`@$_`?{print"+ $1"}:{print"
+- $1"}&&`rm $1`;
print$\;}
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Re: Re: Battle script by Dog and Pony (Priest) on Jun 06, 2002 at 13:29 UTC
A variation where the stronger one strikes (potentially)harder (and the one that gets the upper hand has the advantage): `> perl -e "$a=$b=100;while($a>0&&$b>0){$a-=rand($b/10);$b-=rand($a/10) +;print qq($a \| $b\n)}"` [download] You have moved into a dark place. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Battle script by rob_au (Abbot) on Jun 06, 2002 at 14:46 UTC
Oh no! You have inadvertantly tipped the scale of battle to favour the `a` opponent by the fact of its first attack and the effect which this has on the probability (random seed) for the retalitory attack of `b` - But what if the battle forces of `b` launch a preemptory attack? Consider the following where Quantum::Entanglement has been used such that the victor is truly not known until the battle has been fought! `#!/usr/bin/perl use Quantum::Entanglement; my $opponent1 = entangle(1, 'a', 1, 'b'); my $opponent2 = p_op($opponent1, 'eq', 'a', sub{'b'}, sub{'a'}); $a = $b = 100; $opponent1 = "$opponent1"; $opponent2 = "$opponent2"; { no strict 'refs'; while ($$opponent1 > 0 && $$opponent2 > 0){ $$opponent1 -= rand($$opponent2 / 10); $$opponent2 -= rand($$opponent1 / 10); print qq($$opponent1 \| $$opponent2\n) } print "And the winner is ... '", (($$opponent1 < 0) ? $opponent1 : $opponent2), "'\n"; }` [download] Yes, I was bored :-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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