Re: [FWP] Shufflebug

[abigail@delanet.com]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:08:26PM -0500, Omer Shenker wrote:
> 
> @cards = 0 .. 51;
> 
> foreach $player (0 .. 3) {
>     for (0 .. 12) {
>         push @{$hands[$player]}, splice @cards, rand @cards, 1;
>    }
> }
> 
> This can be generalized for an arbitrary number of players and cards, with
> the leftovers in @cards to be dealt out, put in a stack, or ignored as
> desired.


Besides suffering from the same problems as being discussed, this also
suffers from being quadratic in the number of cards.

splice() is devillish when it comes to efficiency.


Abigail

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