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Anti-golfing: msg#00064

Subject: Anti-golfing
In a momentary[0] insanity I came up with the concept of anti-golf.

Just looking for the largest solution wouldn't be fun. You can always
add dead code. Demanding that every op-code should be executed isn't
much better, then you just have to add ramdom not used calculations in
the code.

For a while I thougt about the following rule:

  The program should break if you remove any subset of the characters.

This would solve both the above problems. But I guess you would still
be able to make abitrary long code-snippet by some use of eval and
some code/decode functionality. At least it would become arbitrary
hard to prove or disprove that the program follows the rules.

Can anyone come up with a bounded measurement that can't be abused?


On the other hand we could just say that instead of getting as close to
score 0.00 as possible people should try to hit score 83.32 (for some
given tie-breaker of course).



I want to play but I don't have the dicipline just to play after-hours
and I've been too busy at work for the last few months.

-- 
 Peter Makholm     |    Yes, you can fight it, but in the end the ultimate
 peter@xxxxxxxxxxx |                           goal of life is to have fun
 http://hacking.dk |                                     -- Linus Torvalds



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