#!/usr/bin/perl use v5.26; use Test2::V0; use Test2::Tools::Subtest 'subtest_streamed'; use Getopt::Long; use experimental 'signatures'; use List::MoreUtils qw(nsort_by binsert); ### Options and Arguments my ($tests, $examples, $verbose); GetOptions( 'examples!' => \$examples, 'tests!' => \$tests, 'verbose!' => \$verbose, ) or usage(); run_tests($examples, $tests); # tests do not return usage() unless @ARGV; sub usage { die <<~EOS; $0 - last element usage: $0 [-examples] [-tests] [-verbose] [N...] -examples run the examples from the challenge -tests run some tests N... list of numbers EOS } ### Input and Output say last_element(@ARGV); ### Implementation # # For details see: # https://github.sommrey.de/the-bears-den/2025/01/31/ch-306.html#task-2 sub last_element { my @list = nsort_by {$_} @_; while (@list > 1) { my ($m1, $m2) = splice @list, -2; my $diff = $m2 - $m1; next unless $diff; binsert {$_ <=> $diff} $diff, @list; } $list[0] // 0; } ### Examples and Tests sub run_tests ($examples, $tests) { return unless $examples || $tests; state sub run_example ($args, $expected, $name) { my $result = last_element(@$args); is $result, $expected, "$name: (@$args) -> " . $expected; } plan 2; $examples ? subtest_streamed(examples => sub { my @examples = ( [[3, 8, 5, 2, 9, 2], 1, 'example 1'], [[3, 2, 5], 0, 'example 2'], ); plan scalar @examples; for (@examples) { run_example @$_; } }) : pass 'skip examples'; $tests ? subtest_streamed(tests => sub { plan 8; is last_element(map 2**$_ - 1, 1 .. $_), $_, 2**$_ - 1 for 1 .. 8; }) : pass 'skip tests'; exit; }