I think this is closer to the approach I was trying to figure out. Thanks for posting this. It does produce the correct result for my input. I am going to need to spend a bit more time on this to understand it fully and know for sure it’s doing what I think it is.
This is one aspect of elixir code that I haven’t really gotten comfortable with. For basic things the code seems so elegant and straightforward, but once things get complicated I seem to get lost and have a harder time visualizing what is actually getting passed between the functions. I’ve mostly done OOP stuff before and didn’t really experience this before. Maybe it’s more to do with the nature of Advent of Code than elixir in general. IDK
I would love a tool that could show visually what the parameters look like when you mouse over functions. I think that would be super cool and help a lot in these cases.
