En réponse à [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > David H. Adler wrote: > > If any of you have read The Perl Review > > (http://www.perl.org/ThePerlReview/), you may have noticed, > > buried in the back, a golf challenge. > > > > To make a long story short, we're looking for someone to be > > our Master of Golf. > > I like the interactive nature of the fwp golf games with their > periodic scoreboard updates. Moreover, I feel a tight test program > is essential for a serious golf game because it clarifies the > problem semantics better than English can. > > I suppose the TPR web site could have a test program to download, > along with a current scoreboard, much like Ton's game at: > http://a108.bauhuette.haw-hamburg.de/golf/challenge.html > but that is quite a lot of work.
I think it's high-time fwp developped the module Game::Golf, or Game::PerlGolf, to help handling these contests. It should have a scoring method (maybe with several scoring rules (embedded newlines, etc) And even better, I think it should use Test::Harness to handle testing. Then the hole creators would only have to write .t files, which would be run by the Game::PerlGolf object, which would calculate the score. And so you could not just fail, but fail on 2 out of 10 (or 20) tests. A method to check several entries in a row and automatically provide the Leader Board would be nice, I think. I have toyed with the idea since Santa's game, but never got further than discovering that the interface would be a little difficult to specify. Since I don't think I can handle this alone, may I suggest that fwp, and particularly the previous judges and players come together to design and code this project ? I can already imagine golf games being given as .t files, with the pod documentation explaining what you have to do, and the test program being perl -MGame::PerlGolf -e test (more or less). -- Philippe BRUHAT - BooK When you run from your problem, you make it that much harder for good fortune to catch you, as well. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #14 (Epic))
