🎄 Day 12
In C3
A hard day. I got part 1 working relatively quickly after i realised how to approach this (flood
fill algorithm), but part 2 was pretty annoying. I eventually resorted to googling and found a hint
that the number of corners equals the number of sides. So i implemented code to count the number
of corners and got it working after a bit of bug fixing and playing around with offsets for the
corner checking. As for my opinion on C3, it hasnt really changed. I prefer Hare. One annoying thing
is having to pass List structures as pointers when modifying them, which causes some inconsistent
and ugly syntax. If i want to get the length of that list, i use list.len(). Now if i want to get
the n-th element, i have to do (*list)[n]. Im really not too fond of that. I would prefer if the
reference syntax thats present in foreach loops would also be a thing for function parameters,
like in C++.
I did not complete this day on 12th because i had to study for exams and did not have any time left to do AOC, so im catching up today (13th).
To run part 1 or part 2, do:
$ make part1
$ make part2