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Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the Week #6: msg#00472

Subject: Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the Week #6
Quoting Mark Jason Dominus <mjd-ZxR0713JXSrQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 5. With all this discussion, I was surprised to see how few of the
>    submitted solutions actually worked properly for the
>    straightforward cases: Postive integers in ascending order with no
>    repeats.  Of the 21 samples I tested, several failed some of the
>    basic cases.  (See
>    http://perl.plover.com/qotw/misc/r006/RESULTS/format/NOTOK . )

I was surprised to see my program as part of the incorrect solutions.  I did a
quick bit of investigating and noticed that you changed my function to use a '-'
as a range separator instead of '..'.  I guess this made it easier to test, but
by doing so you broke the function :)

I guess you could call it bad design on my part, and I did veer from the spec by
using '..'.

I have to say that I don't envy your task in having to sift through all this
code to try and make everything work with your test harness...

Cees



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