Talk:Box the compass

General

The naming sequence was more complex than I originally thought. I started by coding up a generic quarter of the points but North and South take precedence over East and West in some of the orderings and so I had to 'reflect' a quarter, quarter1 to make quarter2 in the Python solution.

P.S. Couldn't help the Pirate speak :-)

--Paddy3118 21:43, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

I chose to just put in a list of all the packed representations (which are very slightly modified from the official abbreviations to add hyphens). The fact that I don't have to do a lot of quoting of the strings makes this a very attractive option in Tcl. –Donal Fellows 10:10, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I like the way you've done it. Coding all 32 points is done so compactly and you skip all the logic for choosing quarters. Neat! --Paddy3118 12:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)