The Nineteenth Byte

Lynn

12:00 AM

@quartata After all…

Aug 7 at 21:02, by Dennis

@Downgoat 14-16 hrs. I wish I was joking.

Alex A.

Good god

quartata

I guess he doesn't teach summer session so probably doesn't have anything to do :P

ASCII-only

@quartata only 218 not closed, barely enough

Doorknob

@Lynn And I thought I spent a lot of time here...

Lynn

Me too

Downgoat

12:06 AM

@AlexA., you're back! :D \o/

were you migrating?

Dennis

Well, you don't. Now you know. :P

Alex A.

@Downgoat Haha yes, just been very busy

Sp3000

@Dennis Your cop's TIO link is 32 bytes instead of 22? Did you mean a different link?

Dennis

@Sp3000 The first line in the submission. The second one is a test suite.

Sp3000

Oh - there wasn't any input so that wasn't immediately obvious to me

Doorknob

12:13 AM

Not what I meant, Google...

Sp3000

Almost as fun as trying to figure out if Julia has a set type :P

quartata

@Sp3000 hahaha

Dennis

@Sp3000 Added a comment to the TIO link.

@Doorknob You need AdBlock in your life. >_>

Alex A.

Doorknob doesn't believe in AdBlock

Doorknob

I prefer not to use adblockers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dennis

12:16 AM

I know. Hence the >_>.

Alex A.

I have AdBlock, Fuck FuckAdBlock, AdBlockBlock Blocker, and RefControl

No site has any idea whether I'm using AdBlock so I get 0 ads anywhere

It's glorious

Doorknob

@AlexA. We Done Been... Framed!

> Net effect: frame-busting busted. Which might naturally lead you to wonder -- hey buster, can you bust the frame-busting buster? And, if so, where does it end?

TessellatingHeckler

Hi; I think answers are allowed to assume a fresh interpreter session (no variables hanging around from 'earlier'), is that right? And if so, is it written anywhere? I can't see anything in the Meta site about "ground rules for answers" or "unwritten rules" or anything related

Alex A.

You shouldn't ever assume a variable already exists

So I think it's safe to always assume you're in a fresh session

Doorknob

@TessellatingHeckler Generally, I think the rule is only that your code needs to be able to run multiple times and still produce the correct output. (This is only relevant for ex. function submissions, not full programs.)

Dennis

12:19 AM

@TessellatingHeckler That depends. A function submission must be reusable, so if it modifies a global variable, it still has to work if you run it a second time.

TessellatingHeckler

Hmm; you shouldn't assume a variable exists. In a language where you can use uninitialized variables to initialize them, you can assume it doesn't already exist?

(as long as your code works if run a second time)

Doorknob

Which language are you referring to? Something like PHP/Perl's barewords?

Dennis

Yes.

> AdBlock is not enabled

\o/

@AlexA. Had no idea these existed. Thanks!

Alex A.

@Dennis My pleasure :D

TessellatingHeckler

<subscript>PowerShell</subscript> :stares at floor:
e.g. $n++ will make it an integer and start it counting from 0
but if $n was already defined as 120 in the shell before you ran your script, it would count from there and ruin your answer

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

12:28 AM

@AlexA. that's epic

especially this github

Doorknob

@TessellatingHeckler Ah, that's okay if your submission is a full program, but not if it's a function that modifies global state (I don't know how PowerShell works, but if that makes a local variable and the function works when called multiple times in a row, then that's fine).

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