User talk:SqrtNegInf
Talking to myself... --SqrtNegInf (talk) 18:34, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
RC-run
Hey, when you get a chance, could you give the latest version of RC-run (April 24) a try? It is especially useful with the -d & -b flags set IMO. If you have any observations or suggestions, I'd be interested. --Thundergnat (talk) 00:49, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- I tried to exercise all relevant combinations of command-line options, and everything is working as advertised. The one problem I found was when I ran multiple tasks from a file, after 'Bitmap_B_zier_curves_Cubic', all subsequent tasks ended up rooted below the first, e.g. 'rc/perl6/Bitmap_B_zier_curves_Cubic/rc/perl6/Card_shuffles/'; for some reason the 'chdir $current' didn't work. One suggestion: If the value of '$view' could be set via the command-line, users on other platforms could more easily view graphical results. --SqrtNegInf (talk) 12:58, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Update: The two items mentioned above were related... When the 'view' command failed in the 'run-it' sub, it exited early, 'chdir' didn't happen. When I set $view as something innocuous, /usr/bin/file, then things were fine. --SqrtNegInf (talk) 18:54, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Doh! Thinko. Line 169 should be .resume instead of return.--Thundergnat (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Hofstadter-Conway $10,000 sequence / Perl 6
Removed the 'fast' (and less elegant) alternative version as it no longer has any performance advantage with the current release of Rakudo. At the time of the initial 6.c release (2015.12) there was a nearly 5-fold difference in run times.
Thanks
I wanted to say thanks for all the new the Perl and Perl 6 task implementations you've been writing. Love it! Danaj (talk) 17:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
File IO
Thanks for finding and fixing the Perl 6 file IO errors, my time is pretty limited for the near future. I have to say though, I feel a little less clueless about making that error / assumption when I see who added the entry for Last_letter_first_letter. --Thundergnat (talk) 14:44, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice
>> When you add/edit a task, put a short summary of what you've done
I will manage future edits accordingly.--Hkdtam (talk) 10:14, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing my missing tag
Arrg. Didn't notice the missing closing div tag in Count Examples. It looked fine in preview, I got called away just as I submitted and didn't double check. Thanks. --Thundergnat (talk) 02:19, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks - RE: Problems with 'Addition chains' task
>> Can you double-check that the 'Addition chains' task
Oh thank you very much for pointing it out. I don't why that two less than/greater than equal signs got change to bare equals during copy and paste. Anyway thanks again. --Hkdtam (talk) 16:37, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Range consolidation
Doh. Good catch on the Range consolidation task. I cut out a bunch of logic dealing with excluded boundaries and completely missed the the enclosed range case. To be fair, there weren't any test cases that exercised that or I probably would have noticed. Thanks. --Thundergnat (talk) 23:30, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
- Actually, there is: [-6, -1], [-4, -5], otherwise I doubt I would have found the problem. I don't know if Paddy3118 was clever or lucky in using that pairing. Your output as shown was correct, so I figured an earlier version worked, but the urge to stream-line the code caught up with you...
- Argh. Hoisted on my own petard. Indeed, you are correct. Glad there is a second set of eyes looking at this stuff. --Thundergnat (talk) 00:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Chemical Calculator
- Whow 1: I've never seen a so clever way of using regexp and a grammar. Must be a combination of a very good language and a very good programmer.
- Whow 2: Of course, the atomic table only needs six entries. You were the first one to realize that.
I could use many words to state why minimalism is superior. But, I wont.
I'm so glad I started to use RC. --ChristerNilsson (talk) 13:54, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- I had a leg up on most since this task intersects with my $day_job (I modified that code from something I've been using for years). But I do agree that Perl regex are pretty handy. Check out the addition to the task I just made, even more regex... --SqrtNegInf (talk) 11:55, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
RE: Perl 6 treatment of '\r\n'
Thanks for the answer. --Hkdtam (talk) 03:22, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Review
Hey, if you have a chance, could you look over my alternate entry for Eban_numbers#Algorithmically_generate_.2F_count and fix any egregious errors / unidiomatic code? It's been (mumble) years since I've done any serious Perl 5 programming and I've got Perl 6 idioms so ingrained it was a challenge to go back.
The modules may have better choices too. I used L::E::Nums2Words instead of L::E::Numbers because it covers more orders of magnitude. I probably could have used plain old List::Util. It works but I'm sure it could be improved. ta! --Thundergnat (talk) 15:38, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
- I was thinking of doing this very thing, since my approach scales poorly, but you beat me to it. It looks perfectly fine to me (the most important thing is that you used the One True brace placement style). Contemplated removing my version, but hey it's all about learning. --SqrtNegInf (talk) 20:03, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
- In K & R we place our trust. So mote it be, amen. ;P --Thundergnat (talk) 22:49, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Amusingly alliterative annotations as adding alternate answers
As above. :-) --Thundergnat (talk) 09:54, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
RE: Circular primes
Thanks for catching the bug. I took for granted the reasoning was right and didn't check/compare the output, sorry. --Hkdtam (talk) 18:05, 7 April 2020 (UTC)