Challenge 74 refactoring and blog post link

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-074/brtastic/blog.txt b/challenge-074/brtastic/blog.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..786fe5c2a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-074/brtastic/blog.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+https://brtastic.xyz/blog/article/perl-weekly-74
diff --git a/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-1.pl
index 015c803bc6..0bc8072171 100644
--- a/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-1.pl
+++ b/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-1.pl
@@ -10,13 +10,10 @@ sub get_majority
 	my $list = superpos(@_);
 
 	# superpositions have a built in statistics module
-	my $majority = $list->stats->most_probable;
+	# the result of most_probable is actually a new superposition, it can have multiple states
+	my ($state) = $list->stats->most_probable->states->@*;
 
-	# majority is actually a new superposition, it can have multiple states
-	return -1 if $majority->states->@* != 1;
-
-	# we now know that this element is certainly a majority, but does it have a proper weight?
-	my $state = $majority->states->[0];
+	# we now know that this element is certainly most frequent, but does it have proper weight?
 	return $state->weight > 0.5 ? $state->value : -1;
 }
 
diff --git a/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-2.pl
index 9464f0b80e..d1a93a1ffd 100644
--- a/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-2.pl
+++ b/challenge-074/brtastic/perl/ch-2.pl
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ sub first_non_repeating
 
 		# since we have a couple of non-repeating characters, we get the first one
 		# (the superposition here helps so that we solve this by a simple eq)
-		my $alternatives = superpos(map { $_->value } @non_repeating);
+		my $alternatives = superpos(@non_repeating);
 		return first { $_ eq $alternatives } @split;
 	}