Talk:Find words which contain the most consonants

but each consonant should appear only once in a word

Currently, the task has a requirement that consonants not be repeated.

This has been implemented in two different ways. (Not repeated during the counting process vs. not repeated at all.) --Rdm (talk) 12:48, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

That does not make any sense to me. How does a word such as "crystallography" not have repeated r,y,l? --Pete Lomax (talk) 21:52, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

No need to delete versions on Rosetta Code

I've restored a Python version which had been deleted on the grounds that it made a particular interpretation (in fact two complementary interpretations) of the ambiguous task description.

There's no need to delete versions on Rosetta Code – the first step is to comment on the Discussion page, and the general pattern is to add and preserve, perhaps after discussion, with updates. Hout (talk) 17:14, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Often tasks are disambiguated by referring to the authors original submission making the disgarding of words with repeated constants correct.--Nigel Galloway (talk) 18:15, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

However, "each consonant should appear only once" was added very early on, when only Ring existed (and never claimed that "crystallography" was somehow "correct"), so that can hardly be used as an excuse for the Haskell and Python entries 17 months later, can it? --Pete Lomax (talk) 22:08, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Indeed, and that's why the final output of that variant excludes words with repeated consonants.

I find the preceding (unfiltered) listing interesting though, and I'm inclined to leave it, while the task formulation remains ambiguous, as a reminder that a bit of reformulation still seems desirable. Hout (talk) 19:57, 26 July 2022 (UTC)