Eugene van der Pijll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In fact, this month's hole was so difficult that after a days work I > still had no working solution. Unfortunately, my attempts failed at > the longest test, and I nearly gave up on this hole. Only my > embarrasment on being in the sandtrap forced me to stay in the race.
I didn't enter this month (after 3 or 4 months of not playing) because I couldn't come up with a solution I could submit. A day spent playing with recursive regexes got nothing better than being able to make Perl segfault; after a day's break I came up with a Parse::RecDescent solution that worked, but was of course not suitable for submitting, and I toyed with further regex approaches for a day or two before deciding I simply didn't have the time to dedicate to finding a solution that wasn't going to get me back into the game. That said, I'm sure I could have come up with something suitable if I'd worked more, and I like this month's hole for not being needlessly abitrary; sometimes I feel as though a hole relies on specifying the form of the output too stringently. -- ||----|---|------------|--|-------|------|-----------|-#---|-|--|------|| | ``Ooooaah! | | I'm getting so excited about cheese-making I can't stand it!'' | ||--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-|
