Talk:Odd word problem
Explanations
Obviously, this task is not about text processing. Rather, it's about conditional code execution order. The even words are straightforward, while reversing odd words are easy with, say, recursion, with the catch that the word end marker (punctuation) needs to be processed after the recursion has returned. If peeking ahead is allowed, then this difficulty is removed and the whole thing becomes quite moot. --Ledrug 20:06, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- So this is a modified version of the problem that has been linked to? The solutions there seem to use buffers and peeking a lot. The site also says that the words will be a maximum of 20 characters long. Unless I'm missing changes in the spec later in the discussion, maybe there should be no link at all to that site (just to avoid confusion). --Mwn3d 20:12, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- I only linked there for the problem description, not their solutions. C2.com isn't exactly known for its example code qualities. I couldn't find a good ref to the problem anywhere else, and Dijkstra's original is in a 200+ page pdf that requires subscription to download. If you think this task description is clear enough, feel free to remove the link. --Ledrug 20:46, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
I guess I need to further clarify: this is not about text processing. Reversing English words and reading/writing a-z is about as unineresting as it can get, just pretend they are some token irreversible action that's potentially very complicated and cannot be simply queued as data, and you need to perform them in certain order depending on the input. In a strict sense, the current python and go code aren't correct, either (passing saved data by return). --Ledrug 22:21, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Other References
- Dr. Dobbs The problem definition given here is slighty different. Punctuation is one or more blanks or a period. --Dgamey 22:17, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- Yes I changed that, because with blanks you can't tell if the delimiters have been incorrectly swapped. --Ledrug 22:21, 3 November 2011 (UTC)