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> Brad Greenlee wrote: > > Here's a question of fair play: does each program > > have to work for any given text file, or is it ok > > if it just works on the test cases presented by > > tsanta? I can shorten my mid.pl by one stroke, and > > it still passes all the tests, but it will > > eventually fail when the file reaches a certain size. > > Yanick : > I did the same. The rule says that if it passes > tsanta.pl, it's okay. However, I have to admit that it's > crass cheating, and would accept any decision of not > allowing this particular trick. > My definition of "fair" is to expect some input (i.e. minimum of one line), and reasonable limitations. Santa has admitted the test program isn't ideal, and would like a new improved one :) Using 'die' or 'warn' is cheating, since these use STDERR not STDOUT as specified. Conking out after less than 1000 (a number I picked out from the ether) lines could be considered bad. I won't be terribly chuffed if someone wins by creating a solution which breaks on the 12th line of input. The 'idea' is to create one liners that match the problem criteria, not the tests. I'm sure the final versions will be carefully picked at to ensure fairness. Jonathan Paton ________________________________________________________________ Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds great. Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it! The competition ends 16 th of December 2001.Thread Previous | Thread Next