The Nineteenth Byte

Fatalize

6:00 PM

(furthermore your query works on my computer)

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Also output this information: thing being indexed, length of thing, and index.

Fatalize

@Dennis Nevermind I got the same error

Just a sec... (sorry again)

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman so, the variable name of the thing being indexed?

LegionMammal978

Nathan Merrill

how does that process work?

Fatalize

6:03 PM

@Dennis Nevermind again, I actually don't have the error

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Yes. And stuff like foo[a] too.

LegionMammal978

^^^^ A 60's error message.

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Dunno yet. I haven't even implemented indexing yet...

Nathan Merrill

so, lets say I make a class Foo

it has a indexAt(index) function

and it throws a IndexOutOfBounds error

how does it get access to the variable name?

Fatalize

@Dennis So there's a problem with your o or hw files (no read access?) or you didn't exactly query swipl -g "consult('brachylog.pl'),run_from_files_no_file('code.brachylog','hw','o')" -t "halt"

LegionMammal978

6:04 PM

^^

Nathan Merrill

also, what if I do func_call()[index]

or this.that.joe[index]

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Built-in functions in Pytek (like indexing) generally have access to the full call stack, so it probably won't be terribly hard to get the variable name.

Are you seriously trying to dissuade me from implementing this feature?

Nathan Merrill

no. I'm making you think through how it works

I like descriptive error messages :)

@El'endiaStarman are there magic methods?

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Not sure what you mean.

Fatalize

(@Dennis not code.brachylog but your code file name (cat) obviously)

Nathan Merrill

6:08 PM

@El'endiaStarman aka, if I wanted to make a = MyFoo(); a[0] work, is it possible?

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill That's my plan, yes. The error message would use a (along with the line number).

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman so, my class would need some function get(index) where it gets the index passed to it via the brackets

PhiNotPi

First results from my timing experiments: many basic functions (addition, looping) take 0.1 seconds each. The "delay" block takes 0.03 seconds longer than it should, so setting the delay block to "wait 0.1 seconds" actually means it will wait 0.13 seconds.

Nathan Merrill

so, then the question is how my get function would know the name of the variable

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Yes. Like Python's __getitem__.

Nathan Merrill

6:11 PM

unless that name is automatically printed when you walk up the stack trace

@PhiNotPi lol

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Hmm. Yeah, that probably would happen. I was thinking more in the sense of when you do stuff like foo = [1 2 3]; \print(foo[4]).

muddyfish

That time when you try to sort something only to notice the sort function for your language does a deep sort by default

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman what will myvar.\func().accessor[0] print?

also, a crucial part of printing error messages is not printing too much.

perhaps you have some ability to indicate which lines should be skipped when printing the stack trace?

El'endia Starman

6:18 PM

@NathanMerrill I definitely want to figure out some way to leave out most lines from a stack overflow. When your problem is that you recursed too deep with your function, being told that fact a 1000 times doesn't help. :P

PhiNotPi

Actually, that 0.03 extra doesn't seem to be a constant number... :(

Nathan Merrill

@PhiNotPi I could see some use in it being like 0.001 or something (so that it always occurs after the block it waited on)

but I think you'd do better having it being constant

El'endia Starman

Possibly implemented by way of a loop-detection routine. Which isn't foolproof, sure, but if you intentionally break it, you deserve the Wall-of-China-text.

Dennis

@Fatalize I'm running it as root, so there should be no problems.

tryitonline:prolog_parser# ls -l code.brachylog hw o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Jul 20 13:54 code.brachylog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Jul 20 13:45 hw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Jul 20 14:19 o
tryitonline:prolog_parser# swipl -g "consult('brachylog.pl'),run_from_files_no_file('code.brachylog','hw','o')" -t "halt"
ERROR: Prolog initialisation failed:
ERROR: Unknown message: 'Incorrect variable format.'

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman well, the other issue is that often you don't want the 50 lines of system stack trace

Fatalize

6:21 PM

@Dennis well now it's not the same error, what do you have in hw and o?

Nathan Merrill

I mean, I think you always print out the top 1 and the bottom 1

Dennis

@Fatalize hw had Hello world in it. I removed that and it prints True. now.

Fatalize

@Dennis Ok so it works. Hello world is invalid, "Hello world" would be valid though

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Best case scenario: make the stack trace expandable and only print the first two and last two. Minor issue: this isn't an option with terminals, so it'd have to be a configurable option set by IDEs or whatever.

Dennis

@Fatalize Wait, so the input file also contains code?

Fatalize

6:23 PM

@Dennis No, but strings are between quotes

otherwise How do you differentiate a string that contains 42 and the integer 42 in inputs?

FryAmTheEggman

^ Smells of eval...

TùxCräftîñg

hi golfers

Dennis

@Fatalize Is the input evaluated in a safe manner or do I have to worry about code injection?

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

@TùxCräftîñg hi part of golfers

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman right, but that's completely up to IDEs (which languages often have little control over)

Fatalize

6:26 PM

@Dennis If the input/output isn't a valid string/int/float/list of those, it will error like you saw, and you can't eval code from a string in Brachylog so yes it's safe

Nathan Merrill

oooh, what if you print out the important bits first, then everything else after?

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Yes. I do plan on developing a Pytek-specific IDE since I want to try adding other features, like seeing the AST being traversed and inspecting variables at certain points. Basically, I want to expose a lot of Pytek's internal functionality.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Downgoat sorry, I can't.

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Filing that away for consideration...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

VIB? very important bits...

Dennis

6:28 PM

@Fatalize OK. Just to check: Can the code passed to Brachylog do any unsafe operations (evaluate arbitrary Prolog code, write to files, access the internet, send attack drones)?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

brb hacking TIO

:P

Fatalize

@Dennis Can't write files, can't run prolog code, can't access the internet, so no

it can go in an infinite loop though but that's probably not the only language that can do that

Dennis

Great. Processes get killed after a minute.

Fatalize

poor processes

Dennis

One last thing: What should I do with the output file? Should it get displayed?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

6:30 PM

@Fatalize that's why most processes kill themselves.

Nathan Merrill

@Fatalize he didn't cover attack drones, he's hiding something

Fatalize

@Dennis the same as with the input file, you pass its name in the query and that's it

New Sandboxed Posts

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Less or more? code-golf Your task is to create a less or more game. This game is pretty simple: The computer generate a random number (if your language don't support random numbers, you can ask for the number) While the user don't enter the correct number, If the number is lesser than the c...

Fatalize

@Dennis one short example to understand that: put . in the code, "test" in the input and Z in the output

it should print Z = "test"

Dennis

Oh, so it doesn't actually get output? I assumed the process would write to the output file.

Fatalize

6:33 PM

No,

Input and Ouput are just names but you can use both as inputs or both as outputs or one as output, etc

it's just that usually you put your input in Input and you return the answer in Output, hence the names

PhiNotPi

So, WeDo definitely uses real multi-threading.

I'll probably stick to fake multi-threading.

Dennis

@Fatalize brachylog.tryitonline.net/…

Fatalize

@Dennis drools

Thank you very much for integrating this to TIO, it's an honor really

Dennis

My pleasure. :)

Let me know if there are any issues.

Btw, my Prolog is SWI-Prolog version 7.2.3 for amd64. I hope that's at least moderately recent.

Fatalize

That should be good yes

Here are the first 25 primes, because I know Dennis likes primes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

6:44 PM

[2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,GUESS THE MISSING NUMBER,83,89,97]

Fatalize

^spoilers

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

there, not entirely spoiled

Fatalize

@Dennis Do I ping you in chat if I need you to pull new changes?

Dennis

Yes, please.

uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

0

A: Advocate languages to golf in

Java Java may be verbose, but don't we golfers come to PPCG to have a challenge? Don't we come here to do what was thought to be impossible? We golf not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Winning in Java may not be easy, but succeeding means receiveing supreme glory (i.e. reputation)....

Fatalize

6:45 PM

Will do :)

uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

golf in java!

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

This took me like an hour to golf down, but I beat osabie!

0

A: Draw a ladder and slide

V, 38, 37, 36, 34, 33, 32 31 bytes é\Àé x2é/4é-òYphx$2Pòdd3GEòjlr\ Try it online! I might catch up with Osabie. One byte shorter than Osabie. \o/ In other news, this is one of the longest strikethrough headers I've ever made. Explanation: é\ "Insert a '\' Àé x "Inse...

Geobits

6

El'endia Starman

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan That's some dedication! The only thing you're missing is a 35-byte solution. :P (Here, have a +1.)

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

@Geobits ?

TùxCräftîñg

6:56 PM

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 invisible space ;_;

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@El'endiaStarman haha, I could make a 35 byte solution if you like.

And then hopefully after that a 30 byte solution.

Martin Ender

@LuisMendo I was actually considering a GEB pun for the title but didn't come up with one I liked enough to use it :D

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Technically it should be 30 bytes since "dd" has a shortcut, but I'm not positive it'll work.

Since it's really buggy rn.

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun I might. It's not actually hard, it just won't be short. :D

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

The French Farmer in the Dell code-golf string kolmogorov-complexity I used to work with kids and The Farmer in the Dell was a popular song among them. Also, I like challenge like 99 bottles of beer or Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear?. Try them too! Goal In your programming language ...

Martin Ender

7:14 PM

@Lynn could you also give an estimate how many bytes you needed for generating the numbers and how many for the layout?

Lynn

In Haskell, exactly the first line is generating numbers and the second two are layout

In Python… I’ll take a look :)

I’d say 28 bytes (orange) are sequence, and 92 bytes (cyan) are formatting

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

@MartinEnder ?

Lynn

Well, not sure what n=input() counts as

TùxCräftîñg

what-if.xkcd.com/14

Martin Ender

@Lynn interesting, thanks :)

TùxCräftîñg

7:23 PM

the last question is legendary

Martin Ender

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 for the braid challenge

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

@Lynn Input a number into n, ofc!

Lynn

σ_σ I wrote the code. I mean I don’t know if it counts as “sequence-y code” or “formatty code”

FryAmTheEggman

^ I guess you could exclude it from both?

Lynn

Maybe. I also, like, reuse the loop both for printing a row and computing terms of the sequence, so that’s shared

(I calculate 3x too many terms, as a result)

New Main Posts

7:28 PM

1

Q: Count of "a"s and "b"s must be equal. Did you get it , computer?

In this popular (and essential) computer science book, An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata by Peter Linz , following formal language is frequently stated : mainly because this language can not be processed with finite-state automatons. This expression mean "Language "L" consists a...

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder Can I do this?

Martin Ender

Can you do what?

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder The new challenge

I know you can complete it in seconds

Martin Ender

well it took me a few minutes :P

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder Isn't it just ^(a)+(?<-1>b)+(?(1)!)$ ?

Martin Ender

7:30 PM

I've got 12 bytes

Geobits

@Geobits Uh, how did my dog do an invisible space?

6

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder impossible

Martin Ender

or is it...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Geobits hahahaha

Petition to add to the room description (in place of the old abandon all work):

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

tries to rename himself Geobits and finds out that this name is allocated

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:33 PM

"Beware of Geobit's magic typing dog..."

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder ah, recursion

TimmyD

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Completely unintentional for the slashes to line up like that. Hah!

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

realizes that the idea was bad

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder What about this: you post an answer, showcasing recursion

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun .NET doesn't have recursion

Leaky Nun

7:33 PM

@MartinEnder what witchcraft did you use?

Martin Ender

with recursion it would be 11 bytes I think. ^(a(?1)?b)$

@LeakyNun two stages and a loop

TimmyD

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ My \golfing folder is immaculate ... there are only ~350 items in it.

feersum

In PCRE it's just a(?R)?b

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder Isn't this recursion?

Martin Ender

@feersum how do you anchor it without ... anchors...

Leaky Nun

7:35 PM

^

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun "with recursion..."

feersum

Well, if if a full match is required

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder how did you do it without recursion?

Martin Ender

there's an option to replace ^ but I don't think there's one for $

@LeakyNun I think Fry is still trying to figure it out, so I don't want to spoil it yet

Leaky Nun

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Your turn. Show off your language.

FryAmTheEggman

7:36 PM

You can post it here, I'll hide away in the Retina room :P

Martin Ender

alright. @LeakyNun: retina.tryitonline.net/…

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder wow.

feersum

@MartinEnder grep has an option for this.

I can do grep -Px 'a(?R)?b'

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder Wait... so who posts the 11-byte solution?

Martin Ender

@feersum convenient :)

@LeakyNun sure

Leaky Nun

7:39 PM

@MartinEnder and you'll post your 12-byte solution

and I'll post my 22-byte solution

deal?

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@LeakyNun On that meta post? I was planning on it, but not until later today.

Leaky Nun

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan No, the new challenge

feersum

Hmm the grep one doesn't actually work

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Oh, recursion?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@TimmyD :o

SEJPM

7:40 PM

Just a quick question for the experienced PPCG people: if a Q that is in the sandbox would get instant-closed, people would have down-voted it, right?

feersum

A lot of the grep options seem to break if you use other options at the same time.

Leaky Nun

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan I don't know what the best approach for your language would be

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@LeakyNun One byte: ò

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Hey, do it in J!

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan what?!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

...

please be more specific

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:41 PM

Wait, what's the challenge?

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ The new challenge

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

there's a couple?

Leaky Nun

6

Q: Count of "a"s and "b"s must be equal. Did you get it , computer?

In this popular (and essential) computer science book, An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata by Peter Linz , following formal language is frequently stated : mainly because this language can not be processed with finite-state automatons. This expression mean "Language "L" consists a...

code-golf string

@MartinEnder what... the... hell did you do

FryAmTheEggman

^ Mods can edit chat messages at any time, you can check the history

Leaky Nun

@FryAmTheEggman I know

@FryAmTheEggman He just edited it to reply to a later message

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:43 PM

Oh. Well, V doesn't have any truthy or falsy, but you can kinda do it in 4: v.tryitonline.net/…

FryAmTheEggman

It might have been an accident then :P

Leaky Nun

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan then post it

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@LeakyNun But does empty string === truthy?

Leaky Nun

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Well, it's your language...

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan V can have truthy or falsy. Falsy is empty buffer, truthy is buffer with content.

Martin Ender

7:45 PM

@LeakyNun haha, wtf. I have no clue how that happened.

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Yeah, but that's kinda arbitrary. I could just as well swap the two.

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

Then there could be a logical negation function.

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder lol

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Does V have any condition of any kind?

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 That doesn't really make sense in the context of the language. How do you negate a string?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@LeakyNun I'm afraid my best attempt is 33 bytes in J

Leaky Nun

7:47 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ just post it and I'll help you golf it if I can.

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@LeakyNun sorta. It has a "break if error".

Leaky Nun

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan eh... anything else?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@LeakyNun Scratch that it doesn't work

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@LeakyNun It almost supports "do the following n (or 0) times." But not entirely.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

but I have better and golfier thing

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:48 PM

If I really wanted to show off my language, I'd use this:

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A: Draw a ladder and slide

V, 38, 37, 36, 34, 33, 32, 31 30 bytes Àé r\2é/4é-òYphx$2Pòdd3GEòjlr\ Try it online! I might catch up with Osabie. One byte shorter than Osabie. \o/ Tied with 2sable! In other news, this is one of the longest strikethrough headers I've ever made. Explanation: Àé "Insert 'arg1'...

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I did it in 15 bytes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I think I can get that or lower

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ambition agréable

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

merci beaucoup

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ How low do you think you can get?

Or I'd post it

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

7:54 PM

I'm looking at 12 bytes if this works

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Ah, one function less.

xx@ is 3 bytes

where xx is a digraph

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

shh :)

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ try 'aabbb'

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Q_Q

nvm

Leaky Nun

btw, is error truthy or falsey?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

7:55 PM

falsey

nice idea

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder ?

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ so you see why I needed 3 extra bytes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

yes

<.@ right?

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun ?

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ bingo

48 secs ago, by Leaky Nun

btw, is error truthy or falsey?

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ whatevs, you post it

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@LeakyNun precisely what I had ._. go ahead and post it, I literally just got it

Martin Ender

7:56 PM

the error is normally not considered output.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

you got it first

Martin Ender

so it depends on what you output in addition to the error

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ you post it

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

fiiine

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder well if it errors then it wouldn't output anything

FryAmTheEggman

7:57 PM

Assuming the error goes to STDERR generally it's falsy (because it's the empty string on STDOUT)

Martin Ender

you can print to stdout before erroring out

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ meaning you can get 12 bytes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

fantastic!

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun no I beat you by 28 seconds :P

Leaky Nun

@MartinEnder Wonderful, so I'll have to edit my answer.

Optimizer

8:00 PM

or beat him

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@LeakyNun posted

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Where do you see the term "four-hook"?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

oops, four-train

@LeakyNun fixed

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ where do you see the term "four-train"?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

here

Martin Ender

8:05 PM

@TimmyD can't you just use Leaky's regex?

Leaky Nun

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ you might want to link that?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

oh, sure

linked

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

TIL the existence of Google Spaces.

A way to share things with small groiups of people.

Leaky Nun

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 -1 for not saying "TIL the existence of Google Spaces"

Martin Ender

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 sounds like Google Wave

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

8:09 PM

Official "website" for Google Spaces

Geobits

Looks like another not-yet-failed Google product to me. Give it time.

5

Martin Ender

You say "failed", but I think Google Docs wouldn't be what it is these days without the technology they developed for Wave.

Optimizer

looks lile combination of hangouts, wave, google plus, blogspot and rest of the world

Geobits

Oh no, don't get me wrong. I love Google and its willingness to try things out. It does lead to failed products though, in the pursuit of better ones.

Martin Ender

true

it's actually quite nice that they can afford to work like that

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

8:12 PM

Should I create a "Space" for PPCG?

Optimizer

this only shows that people view ads a lot

Geobits

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 You can, but I for one won't be joining or participating. Much like other off-site things people have done for ppcg.

PhiNotPi

What's a good syntax for my language? For context, it is based on a series of programming "blocks" (commands), of which there is a limited number, such as add/subtract/call. Each command can optionally be associated with a target variable (represented by a string) and can also optionally be associated with a single argument (also a string). There is no notion of arrays, lists, or any kind of more complex expression, and there's only a single, non-nestable loop structure.

TimmyD

@MartinEnder Possibly, but I don't understand it. :p

Geobits

@PhiNotPi Blocks ala Scratch?

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

8:15 PM

@Geobits Okay

PhiNotPi

@Geobits yes, similar to that

Martin Ender

@TimmyD it adds one capture for each a, then removes one capture for each b (which fails if there are no more captures to be removed, so this ensures #a ≥ #b) and then makes sure that there are no captures left, so that #a == #b

PhiNotPi

It's based off of a drag-and-drop language.

Leaky Nun

Someone should screenshot the three deleted answers

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

So for the PPCG space, I need audience, topics and a cool name.

Geobits

8:16 PM

Everything nice and linear? If so, something like block variable argument seems simple enough.

FryAmTheEggman

@PhiNotPi Sounds like assembly? -> instruction variable argument delimiter?

Optimizer

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 "The Remaining Bytes"

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

Not like we're users of PPCG (however, the Space will feature PPCG users), discuss PPCG and call the Space "PPCG Stack Exchange".

@Optimizer Cool name.

Now, I need an audience and topics

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

um

are you recreating TNB

Optimizer

audience - zyabin and tux. Topic - Trash bin for PPCG messages

Geobits

8:19 PM

^

do it

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

Who's into the audience (right hand) or would like to suggest a topic (left hand)? right hand up left hand down

Optimizer

_o_

Geobits

_o_

FryAmTheEggman

@Lynn is ">v>;" and emoticon I don't understand, or a typo?

Geobits

Dammit, ninja'd to the typo

Optimizer

8:21 PM

:D

TimmyD

@MartinEnder Oooooohhhhhhhh.

Martin Ender

that by the way is all the magic there is to balancing groups :P

Lynn

It’s a crazy lynnmoticon. ★ₒ★

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm not. o.o

FryAmTheEggman

lol, fair enough :P

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

8:23 PM

@Lynn You create your own kind of emoticons? :O

Geobits

It's really easy k_k

TimmyD

@MartinEnder Your explanation here in chat just now makes 100x more sense in my brain than I got reading your SO post (several times).

That's a really cool feature of .NET regex.

Optimizer

O
_O

really easy

Geobits

That looks like a confused muppet.

Optimizer

how many pokemons u have?

Rainbolt

8:28 PM

I have one

Optimizer

good job

Geobits

Umm, I've got 76 species maybe? Dunno, servers are looking down right now.

Optimizer

the one which u get when u join?

Rainbolt

Maybe that was a thing when you started playing, but you have to catch your first one now.

Mila Kunis only has two Pokemon

FryAmTheEggman

But how can you go into the tall grass, my neighbours always warn me that I need a pokemon first...

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

8:30 PM

I don't have Pokemon GO, because 1) even the client is not up in my country and 2) the fad is crazing me!

Optimizer

I have Windows Phone.

Geobits

Ouch

That hurts me to hear, and not just for Pokemon reasons.

Optimizer

i pretty much like it. except for these usual cases

when the app has no plan for WP

Martin Ender

@TimmyD well... :/

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

I've created the Remaining Bytes!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

8:35 PM

no, you've rescued them

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

Ask me for the invite link.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

guys

I have made the most verbose lang possible

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ guy

I want to learn it

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Here is a function to repeat a number of spaces number times:

print call spaces number 2
exit
label spaces
    init temp
    set i set num arg number 0
    set str empty string
    label loop
        push temp i
        push temp num
        if exec temp -- func less
            goto finish
        push temp str
        push temp space
        set str exec temp -- func add
        push temp i
        set i exec temp -- func inc
        goto loop
    label finish
    yield get str

not golfed fully

TimmyD

@MartinEnder No insult intended!

Martin Ender

8:40 PM

don't worry ;)

Paul Vargas

Can you reach https://archive.org?

ven

isup.me

Paul Vargas

That link no working for me.

ven

isn't here either

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

isup.me/archive.org

zʏᴀʙiɴ101

8:48 PM

@PaulVargas Obviously no, because the government blocks it for me.

Paul Vargas

@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Noooooooo!

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Hey! Thanks! :D

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

no problem :)

Friend: "Play TF2 with me" Me: "I'm almost done with this" Friend: "What are you even doing. In simple words." Me: ... "I am making a program (words that do stuff) that looks at more programs then does stuff based off of whats in those other programs. There is certain word that allows for more words to be repeatedly called any time, and I'm trying to make that word work correctly."

Rainbolt

Have you tried Overwatch yet?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

No. does it cost money?

Rainbolt

Yes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

8:55 PM

I won't be playing it :P

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ This has a very Thing Explainer feel to it. :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

yup. that's my only definition of "simple words" haha

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