Obfuscate Code Contest 5 - Results Poll

[Darobat]

Entries can be found here:
http://www.freewebs.com/darobat/Blackjack.txt

Vote count
Beer Hunter: 3
Darobat: 0
exomo: 4
Mattxl: 3

My votes go to Beer Hunter and exomo. Also note that there will be no contest this week (Christmas!) Contests will resume Dec 26.

[Mattxl]

I can't vote till my entry is fixed. It's all screwed up for some reason.

[exomo]

I'm not sure how to vote as none of your entries compiles for me. Mattxl is about to fix something, if it works for me afterwards he can be sure to have my vote. I will look at the others closely tomorrow.

ps: where is gamma? I allways liked his code.

[Darobat]

Your entry was updated mattxl.

[Mattxl]

Thanks Darobat, it looks much better now! Exomo are you compiling it in MSVC++ 6.0? If you are then it should work. I even made main return an int as I found out recently that it shouldn't be void. Hopefully it'll work for you. Oh, and I vote for Exomo because his code just plain rocks with all those DOOM, D0OM, D00M, DOM and whatever else there is. And myself because I have never done ascii art code and I am proud of my first attempt.

[Beer Hunter]

I like that last one. I take it that's mattxl's? I vote for him and (sigh) myself, for the std::cout trickery.

Bonus challenge: figure out how my program works. :)

[exomo]

Mattxl: your function l(_i q) has return type void but is used somewhere. Fixed it by changing to int l(_i q). There is no return, so it just returns 0. I like the shape of your code and the program itself looks very nice. Good idea to print the cards like this. What I don't like is that it doesn't work correctly:

How can 2 ace and 1 jack be 21?
(I use Dev-C++)

Beer Hunter:
1. Your template stuff doesn't work for Dev-C++, I changed it to a normal function.
2. I get a nice compiler error:

blackjack.cpp: In constructor `cs::cs()':
blackjack.cpp:123: no matching function for call to `cs::setp(int, int, int)'

Darobat:
Some compiler errors for you too:

blackjack.cpp: In member function `void HiTMe::hitME(hITMe*)':

blackjack.cpp:48: name lookup of `i' changed for new ISO `for' scoping
blackjack.cpp:37: using obsolete binding at `i'

blackjack.cpp: In function `int main()':
blackjack.cpp:64: `(&HITmE)->HiTMe::hitME(hITMe*)((&HItmE))' has type `void'
and is not a throw-expression

And your compiler wants to tell me not to use the same variable name inside a for-loop. Are you programming a different standard?

I will give my first vote to mattxl, because his code is closest to compilable for me and it looks nice.
I don't like it very much, but I have to give my second vote to myself, because like Mattxl it's the first time I did "code-shaping"

EDIT: perhaps I should get M$ VC++ somewhere, I can't like all those problems

[Beer Hunter]

Beer Hunter:
1. Your template stuff doesn't work for Dev-C++, I changed it to a normal function.

Whoops! Change the preprocessor line to:

Code: Select all

#if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER <= 1200

2. I get a nice compiler error:

blackjack.cpp: In constructor `cs::cs()':
blackjack.cpp:123: no matching function for call to `cs::setp(int, int, int)'

Disturbing. I'm certain I've used setp with Dev-C++ before. I'll download Dev-C++ and see if I can find the problem.

EDIT: perhaps I should get M$ VC++ somewhere, I can't like all those problems

Visual C++
M$

[Mattxl]

Hehehe. I found that ace error after I had submitted it. I had hoped no one would find it. If Darobat will let me fix it and give him a new one then I will. I also noticed that it's not drawing the top of the player's cards. I'll have to see what's wrong.

[Beer Hunter]

D'oh! setp is supposed to take two parameters, not three.
Fully fixed version available here

[exomo]

I also noticed that it's not drawing the top of the player's cards.

No it draws the cards, correct, it's just bad JPG compression.

[Beer Hunter]

I also noticed that it's not drawing the top of the player's cards.

No it draws the cards, correct, it's just bad JPG compression.

It's not the compression either — the forum seems to be limiting the size of the image.

[Wizard]

I also noticed that it's not drawing the top of the player's cards.

No it draws the cards, correct, it's just bad JPG compression.

It's not the compression either — the forum seems to be limiting the size of the image.

That's odd. I saved it and viewed it locally and it's fine. wonder why it's displaying it a few pixels shorter on the board...

[Mattxl]

I figured that it must be the jpeg because I couldn't make the top line disappear. I have fixed those errors in the code and I sent it to Darobat so if he puts it up, it should work. The shape it still pretty much the same, just some slight differences because of the new code added.

[MXP]

I also noticed that it's not drawing the top of the player's cards.

No it draws the cards, correct, it's just bad JPG compression.

It's not the compression either — the forum seems to be limiting the size of the image.

That's odd. I saved it and viewed it locally and it's fine. wonder why it's displaying it a few pixels shorter on the board...

If you view the image at it's own URL it will display correctly. I always just figured this was a bug with Firefox (haven't seen if it does the same in IE).