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A: Execute prints backwards

QuincunxAccording to the specs, I could do this (in Python 2 and probably some others): print "Line4" #This print statement is print "Line3" print "Line2" print "Line1" #print "Line2" #print "Line3" #print "Line4" #This one right here #Meaning that I am only using "those" print statement...

Quincunx
Quincunx
@svick Yes it does. It executes the prints in the reverse order.
Vereos
Vereos
The first solution is not bending the rules, it's breaking them: it's clearly stated that <code>Your code will have this form: //some lines of code
/*code*/ print "Line1" /*code*/
/*code*/ print "Line2" /*code*/
/*code*/ print "Line3" /*code*/
/*code*/ print "Line4" /*code*/
//some lines of code</code> This means that you must code them in this order but execute them in the opposite way.
Quincunx
Quincunx
@Vereos Oh, you mean that we cannot edit that code. I thought it could be moved around. How is it now?
Vereos
Vereos
Still not good, I'm sorry. As I stated in another comment, the contest is not about printing the strings, but executing the commands in the reverse way (like the title says). You are not actually executing those last three prints since they're comments.
Quincunx
Quincunx
@Vereos Oh but I am executing them. They are simply before the comments as well (those ones are the same).
Vereos
Vereos
08:48
@Quincunx No, you are executing another print command that has the same arg, written before the comment. You cannot run a comment.
Quincunx
Quincunx
I'd definitely call that the same statment
You ask for "executing those prints backwards". This is exactly that.
Vereos
Vereos
For "backwards" I meant "reversing their order", and "those" was specifically written to indicate those statements and not just a copy of them.
How would you have written this?
Quincunx
Quincunx
You really don't want me to exploit the challenge like this do you...
I'd probably have said, "Those four statements can be the only prints in the code."
Bascially, I mean that the challenge is restricted to using those lines to print.
Vereos
Vereos
I see.
Quincunx
Quincunx
How about I just remove that bit and replace it with a new idea I came up with?
Which I think is appropriate
Golfscript: "Line1"
"Line2"
"Line3"
"Line4"
as the program would print those four strings.
But if I added print print print print after the last line, the strings would be printed in reverse order.
Vereos
Vereos
08:58
I guess this would be better...? Anyway I guess even the other answer could be accepted as "rule-bending".
Quincunx
Quincunx
Actually, I would put a \n at the end of those strings, to put each printed string on a newline.
The main problem with this is that it is not those lines that do the printing (without the print statements). It is the fact that the program hit the end of the file, so the contents of the stack are printed.
Vereos
Vereos
If I remember correctly (please, correct me if I'm wrong), "Line1"..."Line4" would print Line1Line2Line3Line4, right?
Quincunx
Quincunx
So maybe that doesn't count too.....
Vereos
Vereos
So I guess they can be seen as print statements
Quincunx
Quincunx
That's right, that's why I'd put \n in the strings, so it would print the strings on a new line.
Vereos
Vereos
09:04
I guess that is a perfectly valid answer
Quincunx
Quincunx
I'm not sure they should be counted as print statements, because the strings aren't what is printing. The part that prints is the end_of_file.
Vereos
Vereos
Oh...
Quincunx
Quincunx
Exactly
There, I edited out the bad part and edited the better part to make it reasonable. Cya later Vereos.
Vereos
Vereos
Cya later!

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