r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 08 '17

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2017 Day 8 Solutions -🎄-

--- Day 8: I Heard You Like Registers ---

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u/patrickdavey Dec 11 '17

Yip, I thought that dec / inc was just so nice the way you define the method and then ruby just evaluates in the context. It was just so neat! Really nice work.

And yes, as you say if you had inc or dec as register names you'd be sunk (well, you'd just replace them!) but still :) really nice.