re: aoc day 19 

my part 1 solution was great and now I think I have to throw it all overboard

re: aoc day 19 

@noiob Don't be too quick to throw away what you did! I thought I'd have to do that too but was able to reuse a lot in the end

re: aoc day 19 

@socks it's just so unelegant to hack in exceptions for the new rules, I hate it

re: aoc day 19 

@noiob Yeah that's totally fair

It's the kind of problem I normally hate too. I liked this one in particular because it required some thinking outside the box, but I can get why others wouldn't

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re: aoc day 19, spoiler 

@socks yeah I've just been translating the rules to regexes so I'm definitely cheating

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re: aoc day 19, spoiler 

@socks oh great php regexes have recursion, I just can't figure it out lol

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