Re: [FWP] APL vs. Perl. A query from a lazy programmer.

[abigail@foad.org]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:36:10PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> 
> In my solution, posted ealier,  I shuffle the deck and then
> do a 1-card distributive deal (like real life).  I thought
> I'd simply divide the shuffled deck in four chunks, but it
> turned out a deal was simpler.  
> But here's a different idea (maybe abigail can analyze it):
> 
> 	while (@deck) { # not shuffled
> 		push @{$hand{($h++)&3}, shift $deck[rand $#deck];
> 	}

That doesn't make much sense to me. shift takes an array as argument,
not a scalar. Perhaps you mean:

        push@{$hand{($h++)&3},splice@deck,rand@deck,1 while@deck;

which is just a shuffle and a deal zipped together.

Abigail

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