1. What's a word?
Using rules 2 and 6, any subword of a word is a word as long as it satisfies
rules 3-5.
Then, in the all-letter string:
"rthiusoshysegfergzpzbhoimj"
(randomly keyboard-generated) the following are words:
rthiusoshysegfergzpz
thiusoshysegfergzpzb
hiusoshysegfergzpzbh
etc, as well as any 1-19 character substrings of them.
I'd suggest changing rule 2 like this, for clarification:
"A word is defined as a maxiimal (or, synonymously, greedy) string of adjacent
characters composed entirely ... " (rest unchanged)
And rolling back on the recent addition in rule 1, which doesn't seem quite
natural (see my previous post).
CChris
2. Re: What's a word?
Christian Cuvier wrote:
>
> Using rules 2 and 6, any subword of a word is a word as long as it satisfies
> rules 3-5.
>
> Then, in the all-letter string:
>
> "rthiusoshysegfergzpzbhoimj"
>
> (randomly keyboard-generated) the following are words:
>
> rthiusoshysegfergzpz
> thiusoshysegfergzpzb
> hiusoshysegfergzpzbh
>
> etc, as well as any 1-19 character substrings of them.
Thank you. I can now understand how one might choose to see this rule
as ambiguous. I will reword it to clarify.
> And rolling back on the recent addition in rule 1, which doesn't seem quite
> natural (see my previous post).
That rule won't being changed anytime soon. You'll just have to live with
it as it stands - unnatural or otherwise. I want this to be a Euphoria
contest, so solving it using another language seems unnatural to me.
--
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
