Timeline for Is a regex answer valid if it gives the reciprocal of the required output?
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| Feb 26, 2019 at 19:50 | comment | added | Deadcode | Furthermore, (numerator, denominator) is not natural in any way. I already explained that both of those are limited to being in the range [0,input], which is by no means natural; it's just one among infinitely many. | |
| Feb 26, 2019 at 19:34 | comment | added | Deadcode | Very strongly disagree with you, @Grimy. You could pack the entire work of the program into the output method and just have a zero-byte regex. This is about command-line parameters, as that is how output methods would be naturally implemented in any interpreter that evaluates pure regexes, such as pcregrep (-o parameter with a numeric argument) and RegexMathEngine (not implemented yet, but planned). | |
| Feb 26, 2019 at 15:47 | comment | added | Grimmy | Strong disagree. (numerator, denominator) isn't just one possibility among infinitely many, it's by far the most natural one. This is not about command-line parameters; the established PPCG convention for I/O is that all allowed I/O formats count as the same language. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 23:19 | history | edited | Deadcode | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 1 character in body |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 23:14 | history | answered | Deadcode | CC BY-SA 4.0 |