Timeline for Island Golf #1: Circumnavigation
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| Jun 25, 2017 at 18:32 | history | edited | totallyhuman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 24, 2017 at 18:16 | comment | added | DLosc | Here's how I read it: The main upvoted answer was posted in 2014. The answer I linked was posted in 2016, as an attempt to clarify the ambiguity in the earlier answer. So I read the negative score on the newer answer as people saying, "No, we don't want the older answer to mean that lists of single-char strings are okay." But regardless of meta, I'm disallowing lists of single-char strings in this question (and I clarified the wording to reflect that). | |
| Mar 24, 2017 at 7:26 | comment | added | Greg Martin | I certainly want to abide by whatever current consensus is. However, it's not clear to me that that linked answer is definitive evidence. The answer with the most votes seems to indicate that lists of single-character strings is ok. Certainly the posted answers all overlap in what seems to be a non-obvious way. | |
| Mar 24, 2017 at 5:19 | comment | added | DLosc |
Current consensus says that lists of single-character strings can't be used in place of a string. As far as I can tell, the "characters" in Mathematica are just single-character strings, like in Python. The situation is different in a language like Java, which has a separate char type; in that case, a char array could be used in place of a string.
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| Mar 23, 2017 at 20:28 | comment | added | ovs | @GregMartin I always try out Mathematica solutions at sandbox.open.wolframcloud.com | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 16:45 | history | edited | Greg Martin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2017 at 5:49 | history | edited | Greg Martin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2017 at 5:30 | comment | added | Greg Martin | Mathematica has a string data type, but it seems that an array of characters is also valid for the purposes of this site (i.e., I learned this when I started on PPCG, but I forget the legalities of why). Yes, unfortunately, Mathematica is non-free and thus not accessible to many people :( | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 3:20 | comment | added | DLosc | Does Mathematica usually represent strings as 1D arrays of characters? If not, then you'll need to take/return a 1D array of strings instead. (Also, looking forward to the explanation! I don't think I'll be able to run this without having Mathematica, right?) | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 0:42 | history | answered | Greg Martin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |