So I was golfing this problem, and I wanted to improve the line int c = t[v] = 1;
, so I tried c = t[v] = 1;
, with c
defined earlier on in the same spot as a
and b
, but this didn't work. For the sample case, it gave the output 1 1 1 0 0
instead of 1 0 0 1 1
.
I was wondering what that line actually does and if I can golf it more, so I found this question on quora, but even after reading that I still don't know why the other way isn't working. I use VSCode, so when I hover over the t[v]
part, it says something to do with a reference to part of the bitset, so I'm thinking it's almost like a pointer to that index of the bitset, but that doesn't make sense because we're incrementing it, and you can't really increment a boolean value (which is basically what t[v]
is..