The Nineteenth Byte

@FreezePhoenix and the question was purely hypothetical. I was planning on writing a befunge 93 interpreter without a codebox restriction if it came to it

Zacharý

I don't need you to do that.

Conor O'Brien

> if it came to it

FreezePhoenix

1:20 AM

@ConorO'Brien You'd have to prove that it wouldn't interpret for the question

Zacharý

Would having the user provide non-empty unused input be a standard loophole?

Conor O'Brien

I believe it would be

quartata

i think it depends

CSS, for instance, often needs an initial "input" to begin running

there's a ruling about that specifically

FreezePhoenix

@quartata the style markup?

quartata

yeah

FreezePhoenix

1:24 AM

I dunno how you run that

Zacharý

I hate yes

I just crashed my computer piping it to befunge.

I'll try a major rewrite of the code tomorrow.

FreezePhoenix

@Zacharý that means 'assume Y for all queries'

Not very smart

Zacharý

@FreezePhoenix The yes command...

Isn't that the one that just prints something forever?

FreezePhoenix

Oh... I forgot :P yep thats what it does

I was thinking of the --yes flag

Zacharý

YES indeed.

FreezePhoenix

1:35 AM

Stop making terrible puns

@ConorO'Brien Meaning you can't challenge people to a fight? :P

Conor O'Brien

wait why did that get 7 stars I thought I'd be alone on that one lol

Zacharý

@FreezePhoenix never.

FreezePhoenix

@ConorO'Brien And now you have an 8th :)

Jo King

@Zacharý What about the FBBI interpreter?

Zacharý

It implements ; from Befunge-98.

Jo King

1:40 AM

Oh. The MTFI one?

Zacharý

.code.tio:9: only 25 lines and 80 columns supported in Befunge-93

Jo King

And I guess PyFunge is why you wanted to know about unused input...

Zacharý

Yeeeppp

Jo King

Wow, there are 16 different versions of Befunge in the TIO interpreter. That seems excessive

FreezePhoenix

@JoKing there are over 23 versions of Befunge

Cat Wizard

1:48 AM

does anyone know of a way I could make a SEDE across all sites?

Jo King

@FreezePhoenix Which is also excessive

Jo King

2:03 AM

@Zacharý Sorta relevant: If a language cannot suppress a user prompt, the solution may expect this prompt to return empty. from here

Zacharý

I have working code (not in Somme, that's easy to fix)... but it adds too many bytes, and prints "****NIARB"...

Jo King

@Zacharý but the language name is brainfuck...

Zacharý

exactly my point...

case-insensitivity and censoring... I won't post it anyways

@DJMcMayhem, are you the BrainFlak Guy?

Jo King

You could try using BF-crunch to generate the code

Cat Wizard

I heard the words Brain-Flak

Jo King

2:10 AM

me2

Cat Wizard

I can do KC for brain-flak. Give me a word and I will make it.

Zacharý

@CatWizard Oh, it was you, never mind

Jo King

@CatWizard Oh yeah, let's see if my meta-golfer can beat your solution :P

Zacharý

@CatWizard "kalf-niarb", or any variation in case

Cat Wizard

I will beat the machine

DJMcMayhem

2:12 AM

@Zacharý One of them, not the primary one :P

Zacharý

@FreezePhoenix flashback to polyglot challenge

If worst comes to worst, we can revive the polyglot gods, but I don't expect that for a while (Chance and stasoid)

Cat Wizard

2:28 AM

@Zacharý 116 bytes

Zacharý

that ... won't work. I'll save it for later when the 30% gets bigger.

But that is amazing

Cat Wizard

114

Jo King

Very nice. The shortest my meta-golfer gets is 124 bytes

Zacharý

~80 is where 30% stands

Cat Wizard

112

Oh yeah I forgot about case insensitivity

@JoKing JoKing, I've noticed your meta-golfer is very bad at forwarding.

That 124 byte could be forwarded a bit.

Zacharý

2:35 AM

Now, try without the -...

Cat Wizard

Oh boy.

Zacharý

I could probably just add another befunge in there,

Cat Wizard

Klein could be added easily.

Jo King

@CatWizard Yeah, there's a few tricks that could make it more efficient. I'll put it on my list

Cat Wizard

I could write you a forwarder, I'd probably want to do it in Haskell though.

Zacharý

2:41 AM

dafuq is klein?

Cat Wizard

https://tio.run/##bVXrdtpGEP5tvUL/jIWPJWGkNSZNGnOpbSCpUwg@B@I6MQnRZYU2lrQ60sqG5vIIfYA@Xl/EnZWAEDucI7E7O/Pt3L6RY2fB/b1rC@iAyz2qCJ67ASQpi0WmKBVgPix5DrbngZ3O84iivAaRfUMhy1MKgkPEPeYvQTBuJUvIOIgA8URAl2hCgcVumHvUw4UUQsjiG4W6AQczBnWvruLVpa2iDE5fv3xz@rI/O3/d61@168rZ20l/3Fb39DsXTLclXTRUxc9jF01iCO14nttzqhuflZ0CU63A3o8oFuzVa7BXIIGzFDRTlZ3Rm8nFm4kEdjADCI2eHKkIvdO/uuh3J/2ePCsR0cUvKb2Vh5iNaxSU1irstnGzNlDhfVMGGCs7K1f6i4S6AiPf6NRgzgWs7aXiggmoKzs@U3YeBI/36w9COagb0osS3YTpxxXS9KNMbpHKzrp2X2X1AiGS7JiQORNB7lguj8gkXZ6LUYxVoESkSyb4ek0piexM0JTcpXaS0DRDhHWGQcXECRXU4vJirXw/w@BVL/LATPO46KPtwzGPIooKae4sgfBEkExKyreVOo8…

Zacharý

Wrong link?

Cat Wizard

Nevermind, I forgot how Klein worked. Doesn't work in Klein

@Zacharý github.com/Wheatwizard/Klein

Zacharý

4:16 AM

You forgot how your own language worked?

Cat Wizard

I remembered, but yes I breifly had a miscons=ception.

Zacharý

NameError: ception is undefined

Bubbler

Isn't it time to start a new Language of the Month?

Conor O'Brien

^

DLosc

@EriktheOutgolfer I think it should be Japt too, especially since it's leading by 1 vote now.

I also think I don't want to be the one who has to post the new LotM every time, so maybe a meta question to clarify a procedure is in order.

Jo King

4:41 AM

@DLosc Whoever suggested the language sets it up?

DLosc

@JoKing Yeah, my first idea was that it should be the person who wrote the suggestion, and if a day or so goes by without any activity, then anybody can do it.

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