AoC 2020 - Day 18: Operation Order
I am not really satisfied with this one.
I felt panic when reading the description, and for the first time I attacked the
problem with a “code-first” approach. Which paid off in the first phase (I got
my first placement under 1000), but made the second part much harder to solve.
Eventually I cleaned up the code, and had it a bit nicer; still I am not fond of
this approach: what is the purpose opf those classes? What is the advantage
of this approach against a regular expression approach, removing iteratively all
“inner” tokens, replacing with the result?
The current approach has the advantage that I can represent the expression. Is
that enough of a vantage?
As usual, every year AoC exposes some part in my baggage that I need to improve.
This is definitely one of those case.