You could have a big pattern-match statement for Rock, Scissors, Paper and it would still be readable (in a language that supports these things like eg Rust).

The circular list seems a bit too cute for me. Sure, it's possible, but seems like overkill.

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busterarm 5 days ago | parent [-]

If you have to do a bunch of list manipulation yourself sure but most scripting languages make these things trivial.

Heck, you could easily write it using Terraform built-in functions.

	▲	eru 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		What do you mean by 'list' in this case? Python, for example, has a list data structure, but it's different from what C folks would naturally think of when you say 'list'.