Xanderhall

It warms the cockles of my heart when I get a bunch of upvotes on a Java answer

I would like to add in that I also like the challenge. I was just trying to argue the point that certain aspects weren't as clear as orlp seemed to think they were. Those points are clarified now, and I don't have any other problems with it.

It's more clear now.

@Mr.Xcoder I think that was a joke. x.x

@orlp I think trichoplax's answer there explains it pretty well

@orlp You're assuming people have seen them.

@TheLethalCoder Obviously some people did, as they submitted answers.

Your point makes no sense.

@TheLethalCoder What if you believe it's clear enough to answer?

If the parameters of the challenge are not clear, you can't be violating them if they're clarified afterwards.

@TheLethalCoder But you can't be violating the spirit of the challenge if you don't know what the spirit of it is.

Therefore, it's quite difficult to violate the spirit of it.

@TheLethalCoder Because the challenge is unclear.

@orlp And I disagree.

And the Sandbox.

There's a reason the standard loopholes exist.

Don't get angry when a bunch of people try to take advantage of your exact wording.

Make sure your challenge is clear then.

you gave an end condition in the form of time.

Go until the timer runs out

while(i++)?

That's why people are hard-coding things. Because they're assuming they simply ahve to loop through as many ns as they can

You didn't say the program had to take input. You simply said it had to generate the most combinations.

"In this challenge you must generate all such combinations of positive integers, excluding permutations"

You didn't specify that they had to.

@orlp What

@orlp How am I supposed to check if my code is generating complete sets?

@orlp They're not perfectly clear. That's the problem.

@orlp It's not their fault the challenge is confusing

Check the examples for some ideas of what you can feed it for input

Anyways, I shall leave you with the greatest function ever built into a language, belonging of course to PHP: strtotime

so I wouldn't be able to tell you

Never used Powershell

Wouldn't that be language dependant?

No idea

because (3/2) = 1.5, which rounded is 2

That can either be a nice feature or an inconvenience

Nice, it converts to double

1?

If you manually cast "test" to a number, ie "test" + 0, it will give you 0

Actually, it's "let's cast everything that looks like a number to a number!"

A non-empty string should evaluate to true. But I think PHP treats it as a number, in which case 0 evaluates to false

that one's a weird case

PHP's consistency is amazing Kappa

I did have to output a CSV file through PHP once, tho.

Not saying it would, just saying it's kinda like Excel going through rows.

for($foo = 'a'; $foo <= 'z'; $foo++)

@BusinessCat That feature is used for incrementing through string values. Think Excel

not storing a function in the variable. Storing the name of the function, and then using that variable to call it

"What do you mean $f = 'doSomething'; $f($input) works"