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* Would it be fair to relax the lists to lists of lists or supplementary lists in cases of languages like C that represent strings as arrays? |
* Would it be fair to relax the lists to lists of lists or supplementary lists in cases of languages like C that represent strings as arrays? |
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* Etc. |
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How about a discussion here of how this would apply to a few languages (say in the top 20 or so)? |
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Revision as of 23:45, 12 August 2011
Generalization
This is an interesting programming challenge. An active discussion is needed to strike a balance between generalization and defeating the task.
- I would expect to see a number of languages mark this as omit.
- Would this only be possible for languages with implicit iteration?
- Would it be fair to relax the lists to lists of lists or supplementary lists in cases of languages like C that represent strings as arrays?
- Etc.
How about a discussion here of how this would apply to a few languages (say in the top 20 or so)?