• stifle867@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    It’s great! I’ve had community members point me in the right direction after already “solving” it incorrectly. It really makes you think about it. You have to expand your test cases and really come up with a better solution.

    Not to say it isn’t difficult especially if you expect the problem to be described perfectly accurately.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t need a perfect instruction set, but dang if the examples couldn’t be better sometimes. Like sixteen was in there to show it only counted for 6, but nothing with overlapping text.

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        11 months ago

        The example for me immediately showed my overlap bug with “eightwo”. There aren’t too many other ways to make this ten words overlap. 🙂

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          11 months ago

          The problem is the example is actually eightwothree which comes out as 83 so if you replace from start to finish the example passes but the solution is incorrect.

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            11 months ago

            At this point you’re just complaining that the edge case is not highlighted in red.

            I think it’s the right amount of pointers to make you aware of the issue without straight up telling you.