I am trying to write a Spider Solitaire player as an exercise in learning Clojure. I am trying to figure out how to deal the cards.
I have created (with the help of stackoverflow), a shuffled sequence of 104 cards from two standard decks. Each card is represented as a
(defstruct card :rank :suit :face-up)
The tableau for Spider will be represented as follows:
(defstruct tableau :stacks :complete)
where :stacks is a vector of card vectors, 4 of which contain 5 cards face down and 1 card face up, and 6 of which contain 4 cards face down and 1 card face up, for a total of 54 cards, and :complete is an (initially) empty vector of completed sets of ace-king (represented as, for example, king-hearts, for printing purposes). The remainder of the undealt deck should be saved in a ref
(def deck (ref seq))
During the game, a tableau may contain, for example:
(struct-map tableau
:stacks [[AH 2C KS ...]
[6D QH JS ...]
...
]
:complete [KC KS])
where "AH" is a card containing {:rank :ace :suit :hearts :face-up false}, etc.
How can I write a function to deal the stacks and then save the remainder in the ref?
