The Nineteenth Byte

C:\Users\conorob
λ irb
irb(main):001:0> a = "foo"
=> "foo"
irb(main):002:0> a.next
=> "fop"
irb(main):003:0> a = "999"
=> "999"
irb(main):004:0> a.next
=> "1000"

DJMcMayhem

wat

ASCII-only

@DJMcMayhem useful

@DJMcMayhem since it contains a number but perl can't turn it into a number perl just makes it 0 instead

Pavel

1:20 AM

@DJMcMayhem ++ coerces the string to an int. If it can't, it assumes 0.

Perl just has a weird type system. You can't tell if "1" is an int, float, or string without Data::Dumper, essentially a debugging tool.

Conor O'Brien

1:47 AM

@ASCII-only thank you for sharing this site, I haven't had this much fun golfing regular languages in a while!

Conor O'Brien

2:06 AM

does anyone know a short way to reverse the digits a number in Ruby? I have "#$.".reverse.to_i

ASCII-only

2:20 AM

:( Ruby doesn't have Python slices)

Conor O'Brien

nupe

ASCII-only

That's horribly ungolfy

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3:05 AM

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Q: How many arguments were passed?

Using your language of choice, write a function that takes a variable number of arguments and returns the number of arguments it was called with. Your language needs to support variadic argument functions; passing an array does not count. The arguments can be of any type; you do not need to suppo...

Leaky Nun

CMC: given a nonempty list L of nonempty lists of integers, return a list of integers M such that L and M have the same length, and that M[i] in L[i] for all i.

ngn

@LeakyNun so, we can return the first from each?

Leaky Nun

@ngn sure

ngn

@LeakyNun APL, 2 bytes: ⊃¨

DJMcMayhem

@NewMainPosts BrainFlak, 6 bytes: ([]<>)

Destructible Lemon

3:14 AM

@DJMcMayhem not a function

plus it's a builtin

DJMcMayhem

That's why I posted it in chat instead of on the challenge

@DestructibleLemon No?

Destructible Lemon

[] is a builtin

DJMcMayhem

The challenge doesn't even say built-ins aren't allowed. And even if it did, [] != Number of arguments

It's stack height, which implicitly happens to equal argcount (at the start of the program)

Destructible Lemon

-1 trivial solution

DJMcMayhem

Trivial challenges call for trivial answers

ASCII-only

3:18 AM

@DestructibleLemon still not a builtin... and it's not like there's a longer way to do that...

@NewMainPosts JavaScript (ES6), 16 bytes: (...a)=>a.length

Conor O'Brien

@DestructibleLemon are you joking? just wondering

Destructible Lemon

@ASCII-only already there

@ConorO'Brien yes but it clearly wasn't very good

DJMcMayhem

@ASCII-only if no args are 0, then you could do {{}(<>{}())<>}<>

ASCII-only

Python 2, 16 bytes, almost certainly also there too: lambda*a:len(a)

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0

Q: Craptastic Program Search

A certain well-known cable company has a somewhat clumsy 'Search for Program' feature that works through the remote. It takes muchly much button pushing; so, being an admirer of economy of motion, I thought I'd seek out a programmer's help to minimize the number of finger movements I have to make...

code-golf

Conor O'Brien

3:21 AM

Also, Python 2 :) — Chas Brown 11 mins ago

DJMcMayhem

@DestructibleLemon Oh, I thought you were serious

woosh

Wait, I wonder if that challenge can be answered in lambda flak...

Destructible Lemon

ok something that might actually be interesting: dodos answer to number of args?

ASCII-only

@NewMainPosts perl, 7 bytes‌: {$_=@_}

Conor O'Brien

yeah that should work

@DestructibleLemon how would bf/dodos have args?

Destructible Lemon

dodos is a functional language

considering that you've mentioned bf, i suspect you're thinking of sesos, rather than dodos

Conor O'Brien

3:28 AM

...oh, haha

Destructible Lemon

yeah i think that might be the least trivial language to answer in

Conor O'Brien

dennis sure likes to name his languages with similar letters

Destructible Lemon

i was thinking that earlier

ASCII-only

@NewMainPosts dodos, 39 bytes?

nice

5:10 AM

@Pavel C != C++.

Yes

That's the point

user202729

@Cowsquack ( @user56656 ) If crypto is involved it would be near impossible to prove TC anyway.

Pavel

Huh. printf("%s") always prints exactly 6 bytes of garbage: tio.run/##S9ZNT07@/…

ASCII-only

5:26 AM

@Pavel aka the stack?

Pavel

Yeah, it's just whatever's on the stack, but I wonder why there's always a Null after 6 bytes

feersum

By "always" do you mean once or twice?

ASCII-only

5:49 AM

@feersum no

@ConorO'Brien wouldn't be surprised if Dennis sees that and names Jelly V2 Jell-Os

2

@Pavel return address of __libc_start_main or something like that maybe? IDK, you might want to check with godbolt or something

ASCII-only

6:12 AM

Also: yay cauliflower answer

Leaky Nun

6:25 AM

5

A: How many arguments were passed?

Assembly (gcc, x64, Linux), 1 byte .globl f f: ret # c3 Try it online! The function has to be called with floats as arguments. This works because, in the x86_64 ABI, the eax register holds the number of vector arguments for varadic function.

1 byte...

user202729

6:48 AM

@Pavel UB, what do you expect...

So... stdin 0 returns stdin content in J. Takes an unused argument because there are no niladic function.

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0

Q: Unknown logical error!

I made this simple program to convert infix expression to a postfix one.But I am unable to get the desired results.Please check this program once.I have done that numerous times but failed to find the fault.

programming-puzzle functional-programming coding-theory

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7:55 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

A Magic Ritual code-golf string Given an input string N perform a sequence of steps. Delete all spaces from the string. Delete all second occurrences of the same letter from the string. If the string contains the letters needed for zero, delete these letters and add the corresponding digit 0 ...

Adám

@user202729 Hm, not really so: They could have made s. stdin without taking arguments just like a., a:, and _. return values without taking arguments.

Cows quack

@user202729 doesn't stdin 0 behave differently than stdin ''

s/$/?/

Adám

@Cowsquack Not directly, but if you apply the inverse the it makes a difference.

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8:48 AM

1

Q: Print the Previous Answer!

This is an answer-chaining challenge in which each answer builds on the previous answer. Taking no input, you are to output the most recent submission to this thread. I would HIGHLY suggest sorting by oldest and skipping to the last page to find the most recent answer. Scoring This is not code...

answer-chaining

0

Q: The Lonely Islands

Input: An 2D array A containing two distinct (optional) values. I'll use 0 and 1 when explaining the rules. The input format is of course flexible. Challenge: Zeros are water, and ones are islands. In order to ensure loneliness, your task is to surround all islands with water by inserting ro...

code-golf array-manipulation matrix binary-matrix

user202729

10:59 AM

@NewMainPosts Sounds like 2SAT but much harder.

user202729

11:12 AM

Vertex cover?

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0

Q: Paths & Wasting Time

Premise So recently I was about half an hour early to an appointment, and decided to wait outside. I also determined that it would look strange if I just stood motionlessly in front of the house. Therefore, I decided to go on a quick walk, within a limited area. I also concluded that if I starte...

code-golf

caird coinheringaahing

12:10 PM

CMC: Given a factorial (i.e a number which is n! for some natural number n), output n. Examples: 120 => 5; 2432902008176640000 => 20

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing APL (Dyalog Unicode), 4 bytes !⍣¯1 (factorial applied -1 times)

caird coinheringaahing

@cairdcoinheringaahing Jelly, 3 bytes R!i

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing What does the R do?

caird coinheringaahing

Range

So much for markdown :/

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing Why do you need range? Isn't !i (factorial inverse) enough?

caird coinheringaahing

12:19 PM

@Adám i is index, not inverse

R builds the range from 1 ... n!, ! takes the factorial of each, then i finds the index of n! in that range

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing Ah, right, Jelly doesn't have inverse, even though J does. If there was a single-char inverse in APL or J it would be just two bytes.

@cairdcoinheringaahing Whoa, that's going to be a bit slow for 2432902008176640000.

caird coinheringaahing

Yeah, it finishes on 7!, but not on 10!. It works theoretically though :P

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing 4E19 digits. How about requiring that it can calculate for 2432902008176640000 in less than a min?

caird coinheringaahing

Nah, it's a code golf :P We don't care about efficiency :P

I might try to make a faster one though

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing Just divide by 2,3,4,…m until n=m.

caird coinheringaahing

12:31 PM

@Adám Faster version at 10 bytes

Never mind, that doesn't work

user202729

I don't think inversion is useful in Jelly because -- just make another built-in.

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing Fast tail-recursive APL version without using the built-in: 2∘{⍺=⍵:⍵⋄(⍺+1)∇⍵÷⍺}

user202729

There are plenty of spaces anyway (say, about 1000)

Adám

@user202729 APL's inversion can invert composite functions.

Leaky Nun

@cairdcoinheringaahing Python, 34 bytes: f=lambda n,i=1:n-1and-~f(n//i,i+1)

user202729

12:38 PM

@Adám Anyway... do you have a case where inversion would take less bytes?

Adám

@user202729 Sure, here is an example from actual work I did:

Leaky Nun

@cairdcoinheringaahing Python, 33 bytes: f=lambda n,i=2:n and-~f(n//i,i+1)

user202729

@Dennis Why is 0Æl -> None?

caird coinheringaahing

@user202729 What should it be? ln(0) is undefined

user202729

But then None causes some unnecessary error...

Even -÷0 is -inf.

(and 0÷ is nan)

Adám

12:50 PM

CMC: Given a list of lists, remove the first number from the first list and remove the last list entirely (don't just empty it out) if and only if the first list begins with 0 and the last list is just 0.

[[1,2,3],[4,5,6,7]] → [[1,2,3],[4,5,6,7]]

[[0,1,2,3],[4,5,6,7]] → [[0,1,2,3],[4,5,6,7]]

[[1,2,3],[4,5,6,7],[0]] → [[1,2,3],[4,5,6,7],[0]]

[[0,1,2,3],[4,5,6,7],[0]] → [[1,2,3],[4,5,6,7]]

user202729

@Adám (what's the example?)

Adám

@user202729 ^^

user202729

And the APL solution is invert(append [0], prepend 0 to first element)?

Adám

@user202729 Yes, but also needs catching is unsuccessful: Try it online!

user202729

@Adám Then... how can it be implemented?

Adám

1:03 PM

@user202729 How can what be implemented?

user202729

@Adám Inversion of complex functions.

(sounds like Brachylog)

Adám

@user202729 Clearly it has been done. Dyalog has some very clever people. Here is another one:

CMC: Given y, find an x such that y=x²·⁵÷3.1¹·⁶ˣ (y=x^2.5/3.1^(1.6*x))

Fatalize

^ ints?

Adám

@Fatalize no, floats! (or even complex nums!)

user202729

... and ... that's why Brachylog occasionally outgolf Jelly. It doesn't need to describe the algorithm, just the problem.

It would take a lot of effort to implement something like this while being reasonably fast.

Adám

1:15 PM

@user202729 So since the function is *∘2.7÷3.1*1.6∘×, the solution is just (*∘2.7÷3.1*1.6∘×)⍣¯1

Leaky Nun

@Adám Retina, 26 bytes: tio.run/##K0otycxL/P8/NyEuJjom2kBHQ09bUwfIiImNiVXhio5WMYz9/…

dzaima

@Adám oh, i had ((2.5*⍨⊢)÷3.1*1.6×⊢)⍣¯1 :/

user202729

@Adám (what happens if there are multiple solutions?)

Adám

@user202729 Well, we did it. The interpreter has an extensive rule-set and if all else fails, it will use numeric approximation.

@dzaima Exactly the same solution.

dzaima

@Adám but doesn't work.

user202729

1:17 PM

"extensive" --> "a lot of effort"

(@Fatalize Does Brachylog have something like that and how is it implemented?)

Adám

@dzaima Interesting. Apparently it is better at inverting derived functions that trains.

@user202729 Well, Dyalog APL cannot solve general problems, only invert invertible functions, i.e. such where data wasn't lost.

@user202729 It returns just one of them. E.g. the inverse of square gives the positive root.

Fatalize

@user202729 Something like what?

Adám

@Fatalize Ability to apply a composite function a negative number of times.

Fatalize

I don't understand what that's supposed to mean

user202729

@Fatalize Like, describe a way to get the input from the output and the interpreter will solve for the output.

Fatalize

1:24 PM

@user202729 Well yes

but that depends on your description and on what you want it to find

Adám

@Fatalize E.g. find me a list of strings such that if I rotate the 2nd and 5th strings by 3 characters I get ["Programming","Puzzles","&","Code","Golf"].

In Dyalog APL that would be 3∘⌽¨@2 5⍣¯1

3∘⌽¨ rotate each by 3

@2 5 applied at the 2nd and 5th elements

⍣¯1 applied negative one time

Fatalize

Ah

Dennis

@Adám Question: does codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/161776/12012 actually take a variable number of arguments, or does ≢ simply compute the length of the right argument?

Fatalize

I get it but "applied negative one time" is an extremely ugly way of saying it

Cows quack

~~[@]Adám would this be valid codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/161776/41805?~~ ninja'd

Adám

1:31 PM

@Dennis It just computes the length. Invalid as per passing an array does not count.

Dennis

Thanks.

user202729

@Dennis See, that's why I hates the challenge. That's exactly the way how I would implement a function taking >2 args in {Jelly,APL,J}, but it doesn't count simply because the standard doesn't call that variadic.

dzaima

:43913589 it seems to be taking the arguments as separate items not as an array

Adám

@dzaima Right, I realised when I opened the TIO link.

Martin Ender

@ASCII-only just saw your rosettio bounties. You realise that some of them are deliberately ungolfed?

dzaima

1:33 PM

don't know enough C# to tell why that code works though :p

user202729

I may make a language where a number is called a function and vice versa.

caird coinheringaahing

@user202729 Isn't that Haskell?

Adám

@user202729 In I all numbers are functions that return themselves.

user202729

There may be a number which takes two functions as input and returns an array of functions.

Adám

@user202729 What is an array then?

Martin Ender

1:36 PM

@ASCII-only you also realise that you can only give one 50 rep bounty on the HW challenge? (possibly not even one if you've got a HW answer yourself)

user202729

... just quick draft. The more confusing it is the better.

Martin Ender

@Adám an array is a recursive data structure which consists of a function and two child arrays

Adám

@user202729 :-D Also in K, you can apply numbers (or any array really) to arrays (or functions).

@MartinEnder Whoa, that makes my head spin when I try to combine it with a number is called a function and vice versa.

Dennis

@user202729 I'll have to check. 0lØe returns (-inf+nanj), so 0Æl should do the same.

user202729

@MartinEnder Then it's infinite...?

Martin Ender

1:40 PM

I guess an array could also be empty

or it could actually be infinite (as in lazy)

Dennis

.oO( The easiest way to fix this is probably to make Æl use lØe internally. )

Adám

For languages that allow a function to be called as infix and prefix (or infix and postfix): CMC: return how many arguments it was called with, i.e. 1 or 2.

Martin Ender

@user202729 maybe define the plural of "number" to be "strings" and the plural of "function" to be "platypodes"

2

caird coinheringaahing

> platypodes

Martin Ender

@Adám ±x__:=Tr[1^x] (basically the same as the answer to the challenge, only we need a named operator to make this work)

Adám

1:41 PM

@MartinEnder No, we all know that the plural of function is dysfunction.

user202729

@Adám J, 6 bytes: 1: :2:

Adám

@MartinEnder What language is that?

Martin Ender

Mathematica

caird coinheringaahing

Mathematica

Martin Ender

there might be a shorter solution though, since we only need to handle 1 and 2...

Adám

1:43 PM

@user202729 Ah, that's clever, but can't you save a byte (or two?) with 1 :2: or 1:2:? Nah, : doesn't allow array operands.

Martin Ender

yeah, ±_=1;±__=2

user202729

@Adám Isn't that the only way... ?

I think #@,: may work.

J, 4 bytes: +&1:

(for monadic, it's the conjugate of 1, for dyadic, it's 1+1)

Adám

@user202729 Yeah, both of those work. Nicely done, sir!

user202729

No, f=:#@,: doesn't work for 1f<2.

Adám

@user202729 OK, but +&1: is good.

@user202729 A couple of APL solutions, but neither is very elegant: {1⌈⎕NC'⍺'} the max of 1 and the nameclass of the left arg (2 if array, 0 if undef). {6::1⋄2⊣⍺} if value error give 1, try left arg and discard in favour of 2.

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1:55 PM

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Q: Distance between two points on the Moon

Given latitude/longitude of two points on the Moon (lat1, lon1) and (lat2, lon2) in Degree (angle), compute the distance between the two points in kilometre, by using Haversine formula. Input Four integer values lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2 in Degree (angle). Output Rounded integer distance in kil...

code-golf math geometry trigonometry

ASCII-only

@MartinEnder :/ oops

@MartinEnder yes, but i don't know which. i guess it would be better to just periodically ask in chat then?

Soaku

How do I tag a mapping in YAML? I know, I asked already, but I thought I found the answer and I didn't really.

ASCII-only

@ASCII-only well not exactly don't know, just cant be bothered reading through every single post I guess

Dennis

@ASCII-only For the time being, Jelly v2 is actually called jli, which is pronounced jelly.

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user202729

@ASCII-only Bounty what...? What are you talking about?

ASCII-only

2:06 PM

@Dennis makes sense if it's supposed to be shorter :P

Dennis

Stands for Jelly Language Interpreter btw.

user202729

Dennis is very good at finding abbreviations.

ASCII-only

Wouldn't be surprised if he named it Jelly just do do this

Dennis

Nah, Jelly was just a random food item starting with J.

Sure.

Stewie Griffin

@Laikoni I hope it's an easy fix, cause it was a nice answer! :)

Pavel

2:32 PM

I say that codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/161733/60042 is valid, because the challenges definition of a function is unclear, and shell scripts function exactly the same as functions so a script is essentially a function saved to the disk. I could be convinced otherwise though.

Laikoni

@StewieGriffin It's not, but only because I forgot all about the saving water part over writing the answer.

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2:51 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Are there any limits to how many challenges you can have in the sandbox at one time? Title: The Liquorice All-sort (I'm going with the British spelling here, because I can... and it has more variety) I have just invented a new sorting algorithm, which I would like you to implement in the small...

user202729

@cairdcoinheringaahing
https://tio.run/##7Txpc9tGlh@3ir8C2SQL0qYYMbEzCRN5ZjaZZLObYzZO9hiFw4VJSEJMghwQtMXxeoukL8pnYsfxlfg@4vuID0m@qghCsfMBgn4C8Ueyrw8ADQKgQHtmt2prXSUT7H5Xv/e6@73uB1bq6lRZfu0XqVQpKyonKJMVQamKMfo9Xy4WxbwqleWq3VSuiIqglhX7e7XudNVkKV8uiAVBFWKxF7mxsTHuHcBUBVmt4m8vxmKSPMGNcRPFsqDGefjCJ2KyILtN8AWaYohOriJMihx08TyvNbSm1tK2atu1Ldq2bqO79Qv1C7m7vbtb29Hdq32ltbUZbae2q7u/@233aPewtlvbo@3V9nUvda9157oPgQRDcyWmyb3wty@@9PLf8fHEipXJkdQro@lXX1u1@vVfvfFm5q23x9b8@je//ft33v3de@//wwf/@E8ffvTxJ7//50/Xfvb5v/zrv/37H8a/yP4x9x/CunxBnJickr5cXyzJ5cqflKpa27Bxuv7nTf@5@b86d4OY6k19i75D@1rfqe3XDmjfaN/q@7WD2mF9t/6N…

BTW, while loop pop instead of peek. Is that intentional?

And peek the empty stack errors out.

Also not having a floordiv is quite annoying.

(my original plan was to copy the stack to other and print it, then after realizing there is no way to interact between memories (except use a while-loop like BF, but it's a bit slow asymptotically) I switch to try to somehow print all values on the stack without destroying them, then realize there are no stack rotation command, switch to div/mod, realize there is no floordiv, and finally have to use this.)

user202729

3:15 PM

:/ I still have not learned (Haskell) monad properly

caird coinheringaahing

@user202729 Yes, it's intentional.

@user202729 There is a stack rotation comman : r

user202729

@cairdcoinheringaahing Whole stack rotation. Not that.

caird coinheringaahing

@user202729 Nice, and thanks so much!

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3:59 PM

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Q: Is supplying a method on an object a legal submission?

For a challenge, I recently submitted the JavaScript solution [].push To be clear, this isn't x=>[].push. The entry itself is a function: it's the function identified by the JavaScript expression [].push. Is this legal? Importantly, it wouldn't work to place this function in a different varia...

discussion answers

user202729

Because Javascript is weird.

caird coinheringaahing

4:18 PM

@user202729 Would you like to claim the bounty I set? Just link me to an answer of yours you'd like to get a bit of attention.

Erik the Outgolfer

4:33 PM

@Scrooble I don't know if you mean it seriously, but the comment here is a tad bit rude imho

Erik the Outgolfer

5:11 PM

@Dennis github.com/DennisMitchell/jli :/...

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5:27 PM

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Q: Function not that directly used allowed?

In this answer, the function is defined as With(Math)f=(a,b,c,d)=>... (1) However, f is not used in the function, so it seems fine to write With(Math)(a,b,c,d)=>... (the latter one's return value is also the function) The point is that, you can't write f = With(Math)(a,b,c,d)=>... ...

discussion code-golf

DJMcMayhem

5:37 PM

I assume you all are interested in a different delimiter? We can go with \$, perhaps. A good next step would be to search existing content to see how many posts would break. — Jon Ericson ♦ 6 mins ago

What's the correct syntax to search for that? I tried body:"\$" and body:\$ but those don't seem to work

caird coinheringaahing

@DJMcMayhem Looks like symbols break search, so SEDE would probably be a better idea

DJMcMayhem

Oi, my SEDE is really rusty

Erik the Outgolfer

ooh, looks like that issue has been largely ignored, not even status-deferred

Cows quack

@DJMcMayhem try googling \$ site:https://codegolf.stackexchange.com I'm sure many regex answers would be hit

DJMcMayhem

Conveniently, V uses ¤ in place of \$ :D

Cows quack

5:46 PM

how convenient :)

DJMcMayhem

data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/837929/math-jax-breaking

537 rows :|

Although most of those are in code-blocks, which means they'd be safe

Pavel

Question: Does the address-of operator (&) take an instruction or is it evaluated at compile time?

Erik the Outgolfer

@DJMcMayhem I don't think that \$ is something to be used outside code blocks :P

DJMcMayhem

@Pavel C(++)?

Pavel

Yes

DJMcMayhem

5:57 PM

I would guess it's compile time, but I know so little about assembly and the steps that happen after you write the C that I wouldn't know

DJMcMayhem

6:10 PM

@NathanMerrill Part of it just happened to be that I was the one who bothered to write up the question and Mego was the one who bothered to write up the answer :P

(I know that was an old message, I was just perusing the transcript)

Nathan Merrill

lol

DJMcMayhem

And you showed up seconds after I wrote that...

Nathan Merrill

I was in a different chat room, so I got a ping

Erik the Outgolfer

@DJMcMayhem and I assume you two are now going to have to deal with other hard stuff too, right? :P

Riker

@Dennis do you know if there's a julia type for whole numbers, of either floats or ints?

specifically (x-y problem maybe) I'm trying to make a function that accepts whole numbers of any datatype

I'm trying to throw an error for floats that aren't whole numbers, using throw(MethodError(x, y))

I want to get a custom type-thing for "not-whole-integer", but y is just an example of that datatype (and there's no type that I can find that's what I want)

Erik the Outgolfer

6:26 PM

what is a "not-whole-integer"...

can't you just say "negative integer"?

Riker

no

I mean 'whole' as in 'the decimal part is nonexistant or equal to 0'

i.e. the function should accept 10.0, 10, but not 10.4

Pavel

So just an integer

Riker

julia overloading doesn't seem to support that tho

Integer and Int error on anything with a decimal, even if it has a 0

Pavel

makes sense

Why would you want to accept x.0

Riker

since I may feed inputs directly from other functions

AdmBorkBork

6:31 PM

Does Julia do equality across types? If so, you could do a floordiv by 1 and test equality against your input to see if it's a .0 or not.

Riker

and julia division return floats (even for things like 10/5)

@AdmBorkBork yep I am

the issue is with throwing the error

I want a MethodError (invalid type for arg)

but there's no type that explains what i want

AdmBorkBork

Oh, I misunderstood your question, then.

Riker

(since it's MethodEror(function, type_instance), there's no way to give a specific msg)

tbh if alex was still here I'd probably be pinging him and requesting ^ >.>

I feel like there's got to be a better way to do this :/

AdmBorkBork

Isn't your argument types defined in your man-equivalent? Just throwing an "invalid type" error seems like it would work just fine.

Riker

invalid type by itself doesn't exist

AdmBorkBork

6:35 PM

oh

Riker

MethodError takes exactly 2 args, it has to specify what the proper type is

and passing the standard float tells you there shouldnt' be anything wrong with it

so I guess I'm just making a new dummy type and using that

(this is going in my juliarc)

AdmBorkBork

Yeah, I guess a dummy type is the way to go.

Riker

thanks tnb, y'all are a good rubberduck

Pavel

Does anyone know if freenode has rate limiting on messages?

AdmBorkBork

I would have to imagine that they do. Did you ask in #freenode?

Pavel

6:46 PM

I can't actually connect to irc right now (firewall)

Stewie Griffin

Anyone with MATLAB here?

Pavel

I have this idea. I need to send data between two devices, but I'm too lazy to implement a proper socket server. The idea is to just write the data to a freenode channel with an obscure name and communicate that way.

I know that this is a godawful idea

But I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work

Security and scalability are nonissues

AdmBorkBork

Too lazy to implement a proper socket server, so you're going out of your way to program a custom, one-off communication method. Makes perfect sense to me. :p

Pavel

@AdmBorkBork Sockets are hard ok

Angs

@Pavel You also could use github as a communication channel

Pavel

6:52 PM

@Angs I have literally used Github as an image hosting site when I couldn't figure out the imgur API.

@AdmBorkBork The actual thing I'm trying to achieve is actually a bit harder than I described earlier, it involves several (~20) clients connected to one server exchanging messages. I was thinking that it kinda resembled the way a chat system works, so I had the brilliant idea of just borrowing Freenode's functionality.

Riker

@Pavel it doesn't last I checked

your client might tho

Pavel

Hooray awful communication protocol is go for launch

Riker

I know some have a rate limit and message-in-a-time limit to prevent accidental keyboard spam

@Pavel you serious? what channel

I might pop on in a moment just to see

Pavel

@Riker Well it's not live yet

Riker

@StewieGriffin yea

J. Sallé

6:59 PM

@Pavel I believe there are hundreds of IRC-based chatrooms out there. Twitch.tv's is one, for instance. And it works exactly like you described.

Riker

@J.Sallé are you implying he should do this with twitch chat instead

J. Sallé

@Riker no, I'm implying he could do it with twitch chat.

Pavel

To be clear, what I'm actual implementing is a game (kinda like pacman), in wihch the player clients communicate their position to the server and the server tells everyone else information like what the map looks like

J. Sallé

but an irc channel would be easier, methinks

Riker

"0x0000000 kappa"
"UndefinedValueError 4head"

Pavel

7:00 PM

IRC is actually really easy to work with

Riker

^ my imagination of twitch chat message bots

@Pavel yeah irc would probably work fine for that if you're too cheap to get your own server

J. Sallé

@Riker well, back in the day they were all written in mSL, so they wouldn't throw those

But nowadays they're mostly written in java and python iirc

Riker

tbh what chatbot isn't in python

(js browser-based ones nonwithstanding)

iirc discord and slack also use python

J. Sallé

Well, I know nightbot was originally coded in Java

there's also a friend's project bot that's in Java, it's a machine-learning thingy

he intends it to eventually be able to converse with people through twitch chat

it actually broke when he added it to TwitchPlaysPokemon's chat rofl

Stewie Griffin

7:20 PM

@Riker Thanks for replying, but I don't need it anymore. :) I wanted to check if this works in MATLAB.

I'm still curious though :)

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