Responsible governance king-of-the-hill
Background
For years, the Federal government of the United States has been in chaos. The Presidency and Congress are under different parties, and there are no compromises in sight. Instead of passing a budget or improving the tax code, the politicians are...
It's questionable whether that's a programming challenge.
Sounds like an interesting game for chat though to breed more Peter Taylors you know the existing challenges so well that they recognise duplicates in their sleep. ;)
oh, right, it gets deconstructed into the argument list of p
I'm not sure it makes it any more interesting though. sometimes you'll have to set up a loop in a new language, which can be really annoying, or you can reuse most of the previous prints and just add your own (depending on how well your language can deal with the existing blocks)
with printing a new number it's more likely that you actually have to get rid of previous code
Wait... sorry I'm confused. "append code that prints 2"? So it's not rearranging the code pieces so far and adding chars from the box to print the number of your answer?
This is an answer-dependent challenge! The order of answers matters, and your exact task depends on the last answer that was posted. You might want to sort the answers by oldest.
Let's piece together some code! Here are 1920 random (printable ASCII) characters. Think of them as a big heap of...
@feersum I tend to not actually code in the answer text box
okay, the stack snippet displays the languages now. I should check for duplicate languages, but humans will be better for that anyway, because of different spellings and versions
This answer just prompted a question, which I've wondered about a few times when answering challenges in esoteric languages:
For, some esoteric language, reading characters as character codes is the only means of input, and interesting golfing of numeric challenges is near impossible with decima...
By my count, we've had at least 5 "answer-dependent" challenges now, starting with Evolution of "Hello, World!". I think it's time we started tagging these, so we can put some general information in the tag wiki, and it's immediately apparent that a challenge is of this type.
So, here's another ...
@Calvin'sHobbies In fact, I copied most of the code from my previous answer-dependent challenge (for which, I admit, I reused a lot of your very good wording ;))
@Calvin'sHobbies btw, I've been trying for weeks to come up with such a challenge based on the idea of Chinese Whispers, but to no avail... maybe that theme inspires you to something? ;)
I've been thinking about either processing the last answer's output, or basing your code on the last answer's output (instead of its source), but I haven't been able to come up with something decent.
I have a TI calc but don't know how to make a backtick
I can't rule out the possibility that there is a way...as it does have foreign languages with accented characters and I don't know how to make those either
nice, managed to golf down that Prelude answer from 32 to 20 by using more voices... proof that combining prelude with cjam may allow for better golfing :D
@NathanMerrill he still suggested having a list of them on meta. and I'd still include the current version of the snippet in those answers, so you can actually try out the snippet right there.
I thought his main point was a) having them in only one place on meta and b) outsourcing bug reports and feature requests to GitHub or similar
I'd probably ask the OP to prove correctness then or voluntarily remove it. but deleting someone's answer because I can't tell if it's right doesn't seem nice.
okay, here is what I'm gonna do... I'll fix the technical issues, and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for the backticks. if it turns out to be invalid, he can still remove it so he doesn't get a score for it.
@NathanMerrill I think CH and I are pretty much the only users of snippets so far (with 2 or 3 people having used the Levenshtein distance snippet). I keep reusing my own snippets from previous questions. A list on meta would hopefully encourage more people to use the snippets.
@PeterTaylor I think a simple solution is to have the snakes have no thickness. Just be a line that can be rotated at integer positions.What do you think?
Introduction
The game takes is strongly inspired by Manu's Game of Town. It takes place in a world of swords and magic. The king who ruled the whole continent just died, and the lords of the many city-states are now fighting over territory. You are one of these lords and your goal is to conquer ...
Responsible governance king-of-the-hill
Background
For years, the Federal government of the United States has been in chaos. The Presidency and Congress are under different parties, and there are no compromises in sight. Instead of passing a budget or improving the tax code, the politicians are...
