use Perl

• Syntax highlighted hangman (Score:1)

  by azawawi (8997)

  Great work. Here is the same code in different formats generated using Syntax::Highlight::Perl6 [cpan.org].

  HTML with tree viewer (needs JavaScript) [perl6.nl]

  Snippet HTML (No JavaScript) [perl6.nl]

  Note: i modified line 15 to be STD-parsable.
• Parens (Score:1)

  by masak (6289)

  Nice script.

  You've liberated yourself from the parens in if statements and loops. Good work.

  Now liberate yourself from the parens around the rvalue in array assignments. my @a = 1,2,3; FTW.
• Iterating over indices is so Perl5ish… (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  Take this f.ex.:

  my @found;
  my @letters = $!word.split('');
  my $ord = $letter.ord;
  for 0..(@letters.elems - 1) -> $i {
      if @letters[$i].ord == $ord {
          @found.push($i);
      }
  }

  In Perl 6 you write this like so:

  my $ord = $letter.ord;
  my @found = map { .key }, grep { .value.ord == $ord }, $!word.split('').pairs;

  Although I don’t know why you don’t simply say this:

  my $l = $letter.substr(0,1);

  The resulting simplification should be obvious. Maybe yo
• Misspelled (Score:2)

  by Mr. Muskrat (4572)

  It's "Mississippi".

  Or as my momma taught me: "Eme eye crooked letter crooked letter eye crooked letter crooked letter eye humpback humpback eye".
• Now I have actually read the code (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  I didn’t do so immediately because of the large amount of code, which seemed somewhat shocking for something like Hangman. Now that I have read it… who are you and what have you done with Ovid?

  Seriously – I am now even more shocked to see you of all people produce a God object. The way you’ve designed the class, it’s impossible to test or use any of the functionality in isolation. So I wonder why you used a class at all?
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    I wasn't too worried about producing particularly good or reusable code here, I just wanted to see what I could do with Rakudo. Oddly, I also thought that it would be a much smaller bit of code. Your turn to write hangman ... :)