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00:41
Does anyone know how to create a program in Caboose that returns the last character of a string?
It seems that the language does not support string indexing.
 
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02:09
Never mind, I will just finish implementing my language first (the meta website is not working).
 
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MilkyWay90
MilkyWay90
03:45
@A_ Can you cast it to a list of integers?
you could do some weird encryption to combine all the integers to one integer and use some math-like tactics to decode it
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@MilkyWay90 Sorry, it does not have the concept of a list, so evidently there is no straightforward function that converts a string to a list.
MilkyWay90
MilkyWay90
@A_ so what can you do with strings?
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@MilkyWay90 Here lists every string function in the language.
MilkyWay90
MilkyWay90
@A_ Use a bunch of endsWith and hardcode every character?
does the challenge in question only accept printable ascii?
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@MilkyWay90 Here, the challenge is not clear enough.
MilkyWay90
MilkyWay90
03:52
@A_ Is there any default?
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@MilkyWay90 Never mind, I think we can just assume printable ASCII first. Extending to the whole codepage will be relatively easy.
MilkyWay90
MilkyWay90
then just hardcode
Veskah
Veskah
Ha ha, trying to bug fixed when muddle minded
MilkyWay90
MilkyWay90
04:08
@Veskah "muddle minded"?
Veskah
Veskah
04:20
Drunk
 
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06:23
I tried to create a language suitable for restricted source challenges (Resource), but currently it sucks for these challenges.
Are there tips on optimizing this langauge?
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06:56
I don't expect changing the paradigm from queue-based to stack-based. I believe this change is not fundemental.
(Also I worry about whether the instrutions generalize enough for restricted source challenges.)
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
07:08
Examining the precise challenges you want to optimize it for is probably a good idea, but you've already done that, so... maybe consider how much redundancy you might want to introduce? If byte X is disallowed then you ought to be able to use byte Y, but if you don't want to do the same thing at all under some other circumstances then maybe you want to use some other pair of bytes that has nothing to do with anything else
Cows quack
Cows quack
07:26
@ngn how's the book (if you read it)?
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@UnrelatedString That is too abstract, can you give some examples?
Night2
Night2
07:47
I was writing a long question here with lots of explanation and accidentally hit the "Escape" on my keyboard, all the text in chat box is removed now without an undo option. I guess I won't ask my question anymore ... :(
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@Night2 What is your question?
You can send your
question text separately
like what I just did.
Night2
Night2
@A_ I don't have the motivation to write it all again, it was a question about a code golf challenge idea.
I'm just wondering why someone has written the code for "Escape" key to remove all the text in the textarea. If I wanted to do that, pressing CTRL+A and DELETE wouldn't be hard.
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Evil villains. They didn't even preserve the edit history. :(
I see, Ctrl+A and DELETE is 3 keystrokes, ESC is only 1 keystroke.
Not preserving the edit history is still inhumane though.
Night2
Night2
08:03
@A_ Well as a programmer I probably do +20K keystrokes a day, those extra 2 would be only ~0.01% more!
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@Night2 As far as I can tell this builtin does not generalize enough, therefore the instruction is not useful enough for people to use in actual programming.
Jono 2906
Jono 2906
@A_ Interesting suggestion: let users create their own lookup tables for different characters in the header/footer (or cmd-line args)
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@Jono2906 Good idea, but customizing that will probably be a waste of bytes. (Also you must count the code for the lookup table, otherwise it will be cheating.)
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
08:29
Depends on the question. It's probably impractical in a majority of cases but having some sort of define macro syntax could be more generally useful
Hard to say though
Jono 2906
Jono 2906
I'm going to try this challenge using Scratch
And completely on my phone
Wish me luck!
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Good luck!
@UnrelatedString So we need a conversion algorithm that will be useful in most cases.
I already have the reversed keyboard conversion I wonder whether it will generalize enough though.
I believe it was quite powerful, and possibly it will remove the need of customizing a lookup table.
ngn
ngn
@Cowsquack i haven't read it. i remembered about wolfram's ideas because sometimes i run into them online when searching for other stuff.
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@A_ I need to remove unneccecary instructions unless they are absolutely in use in actual restricted source competitions.
This makes sure that programming is easy enough.
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
08:46
wow, that was fast
Jono 2906
Jono 2906
I actually did it
And I got the 69th answer on the question. nice
Dont know if this is exactly on topic, but...
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John Dvorak
John Dvorak
09:02
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Krzysztof Szewczyk
Krzysztof Szewczyk
I've seen a factorial challenge on ppcg with time limit
I've gone crazy and spent entire day on it
and I've got a program calculating factorial of million in 5 minutes
(on my crappy i5-6ksomething)
 
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11:44
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

NaruyokoPolynomials Through Points You will get a set of n Cartesian coordinates. You must output a polynomial going through all of the points. Input Points are 2-dimensional. You may assume that no two points share a x coordinate. You may take points as a tuple of pairs, or pair of equal length tupl...

caird coinheringaahing
caird coinheringaahing
12:08
Any feedback on this? I know its a little trivial, but worse challenges get posted
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

caird coinheringaahingHexdump quine Your task is to write a valid quine where your program is in the form of a hexdump. Specifically, a hex dump in this format: 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0020: 00 00 ...

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@NewSandboxedPosts I can't access meta at the moment, but I believe a hexdump of the hexdump (any sequence of hexdumped output) is a Hexdump quine.
My browser is loading REALLY slowly.
caird coinheringaahing
caird coinheringaahing
@A_ I'm the OP, so you can talk to me here if you can't get to meta :P
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@cairdcoinheringaahing The problem is that I can't access the compete challenge body.
caird coinheringaahing
caird coinheringaahing
@A_ Ah, that would be an issue
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13:14
Uh-oh. In addition, I can not access the main site anymore now. (It is probably just me.)
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13:24
@A_ I used 3 hours in order to implement an encryption/decryption algorithm.
@A_ :51870448
It's working, I'll be working.
@cairdcoinheringaahing Like 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ will be a Hexdump quine,
caird coinheringaahing
caird coinheringaahing
@A_ Depends on the language, no? If I run that program in Jelly, it won't output itself
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No, it isn't a hexdump quine. I don't think there exists a language that does this.
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14:22
It's 22:22 in my timezone.
 
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17:45
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

AZTECCOPOSTMAN Hello golfers! I just got a job as a postman and I need your help to keep it. I have trouble with the civic numbering system. Streets are numbered strictly sequentially, starting with 1 at the start of the street, and continuing in order skipping no numbers until the end, with odd numb...

 
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19:04
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Q: Write a piece of code that prints out itself

WhatsUpI'm new to this site, so I don't know whether this challenge already appeared: Write a piece of source code, so that after running the code, it prints out exactly (i.e. not longer, not shorter) the source code itself. The code can be in any programming language, but preferably in commonly used ...

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flawr
flawr
19:16
@A_ are you from the future????
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
19:27
western australia? china? irkutsk?

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