David Claridge

Thank you, Denton Gentry, for your Ode to Enum.
In particular I was looking for the gcc extension or flag to reduce the number of bytes used by an enum with only a small number of values __attribute__((packed)) did the trick!

C++ is cool, I didn’t know you could do this until yesterday. Unfortunately it’s a bit painful to bind anything other than the 1st or 2nd arguments (by painful I mean not-built-in).

#include <iostream>
#include <functional>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
int main() {
vector<int> v;
vector<int>::iterator it;
v.push_back(3);
v.push_back(4);
for (it = v.begin(); it != v.end(); ++it) {
cout << *it << endl;
}
transform(v.begin(), v.end(), v.begin(), [...]

Stefano and I have been doign a few questions from past year’s UNSW progcomps. I just did the first question from 1997, simple quiz generator, have a play:
~davidc/bin/quiz_generator
The idea is you enter a paragraph or two, and all digit strings are replaced by underscores and the answers appear at the bottom. There can [...]

At the moment it doesn’t recognise diagnoals – but it will soon .
SSH/Putty into CSE and play two-player connect four! ~davidc/bin/connect_four
Update: Diagonals now work! Have fun