Re: Ants AI, language matters

2011-12-25 Thread Marco Leise
I posted about this contest in D.learn, so it was expectable that people try out D there without a good feel for the language and its shortcuts. Rank 439 is respectable, but I hoped for a higher ranked D entry. I don't know if there should to be an optimized boolean matrix in Phobos. Is thi

Re: Ants AI, language matters

2011-12-25 Thread Jakob Ovrum
On Sunday, 25 December 2011 at 17:07:46 UTC, bearophile wrote: It's usually better to think of pre/post increments as returning void, and avoid code like this (but there is _far_ worse C/D code around): lokeLars = path[index--]; I agree that one should *generally* avoid this kind of code,

Ants AI, language matters

2011-12-25 Thread bearophile
Ants AI Challenge sponsored by Google is now finished, 24 people have played this contest using D2: http://aichallenge.org/language_profile.php?language=D The best D entry, by Minthos, with rank 439 (over about 8000 entries!): http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=4823 Minthos D2 code: http://