Timeline for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
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| Sep 27, 2019 at 16:43 | history | edited | negative seven | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Posted to main |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 14:38 | comment | added | negative seven | @SriotchilismO'Zaic Restricting the character set seems to me like a reasonably simple detail, while making it about strings encourages creativity with string operations, converting to string representations, etc. Also, I personally think string input/output is much more appealing to look at and easier to consume than a list of numbers. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 4:46 | comment | added | xnor | @FryAmTheEggman Don't worry, I've thought of a totally different approach that I think would be shorter for many languages. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 3:30 | comment | added | Wheat Wizard Mod | Why strings? Lists of integers, (even restricted to a range) work as well but don't have the complexities that strings do when it comes to printables etc. I feel like the simpler challenge is going to be the better one. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 20:57 | comment | added | negative seven | @FryAmTheEggman I imagine the solution used is going to depend on the language: what builtins it has, if it's more high-level or low-level, etc. But there may well end up being a prevalent algorithm. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 20:42 | comment | added | FryAmTheEggman | Do you think that a reasonably number of languages won't implement the following: convert the strings into numbers (e.g. treat each character as a base 128 digit) then give a resulting string of those two numbers joined by some other character? I haven't spent too long thinking about it but that seems very short in most languages. I suppose there are other variants though where you map characters to some subset and then join them. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 19:32 | history | edited | negative seven | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Clarified that input is ordered (thanks FryAmTheEggman!) |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 15:18 | history | answered | negative seven | CC BY-SA 4.0 |