Nim
I wrote some nice code for sorting poker hands, just defining the <
and ==
operations for my CardSet
and Hand
types, and letting the standard library's sort function handle the rest.
It was quite frustrating to be told that my answer was wrong, though. I dumped the full sorted hand list and checked it manually to make sure everything was working properly, and it was. Wasted a few hours trying to figure out what was wrong. Ended up grabbing someone else's code and running it in order to compare the resulting hand list. Theirs was clearly ordered wrong, but somehow ended up with the correct answer?
Turns out that Camel Cards isn't Poker. -_-
Rather than rewrite my code entirely, I settled on some slightly ugly hacks to make it work for Camel Cards, and to handle the wildcards in part 2.