Timeline for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
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| Aug 9, 2020 at 16:50 | comment | added | SomoKRoceS | Posted here with some changes listed in this edited answer. | |
| Aug 9, 2020 at 16:49 | history | edited | SomoKRoceS | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 541 characters in body |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 9:06 | comment | added | SomoKRoceS | The thing I try to avoid is to get a lot of 0 bytes answers (for languages that print 0 as default). So I want to add a task that the program should do, like printing in percentage format. So the question is, before I reduced the trimming task, if this is enough to achieve that. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 22:03 | comment | added | SomoKRoceS | Sounds okay to me. I agree that it is better to avoid elimination of multi-byte languages. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 21:52 | comment | added | FryAmTheEggman | I do not think the average person who does not use this site will know what a SBCS is, so it is probably still worth explaining. Alternatively, I think it would be cleaner to just require that the input be a byte and the output reflects the frequency of that byte. That way you don't eliminate multibyte languages from using it to their benefit, and I don't think it allows any "cheating." | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 17:21 | comment | added | golf69 | I do think so, yes (also it might be better received that way) | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 9:05 | comment | added | SomoKRoceS | @golf69 I'm also not sure about quine... About the trimming, my intention on the trimming and percentage format was to add a little bit of "work" that the program should do and make the frequencies a bit more different/challenging. Do you think I should drop the trimming part from the challenge? | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 6:47 | comment | added | golf69 | Trimming the output may be difficult for some languages, maybe you could also allow fractions, or require that the output is only accurate to x decimal places? Something to consider when writing a challenge is if a rule actually contributes to the problem or is just an accessory of sorts (here I think the main problem is finding the proportions, and rounding is an accessory) | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 6:40 | comment | added | golf69 | This may qualify for the quine tag but I'm not so sure about that | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 21:22 | history | answered | SomoKRoceS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |