OpenEuphoria

Re: Contest

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 31, 2004
• 520 views

Patrick Barnes wrote:
> 
> > > > > 10-4 is not a token.
> > >
> > > True, but why are you converting '10-4' into 10-4 ?
> > 
> > Again, because its = it's.
> > 
> > > The specs do not talk
> > > about removing bytes from strings.
> > 
> > And that is confusing.
> 
> Derek, I'd say the principle source of confusion comes from:
> "For the purposes of comparison and display, quotes are ignored in any token."

Agreed. I'll fix that up tonight.

> So, we should compare and display our tokens without quotes, but we
> shouldn't remove the quotes byte from tokens when we store it
> internally? Why *wouldn't* we?

Frankly, I don't care whether you internally remove quotes or not. That
could be an implementation strategy. *ALL* I'm saying, and no more than
this, is that when you compare strings, disregard any quotes. How you
do that is your concern. For example, one might remove quotes *after*
determining that you've got a token. Some other people might keep
alternate lists... there are many variations on this theme. Some work
better than others. 

As for displaying, I don't care if you display quotes or not really, 
but don't go and display both variants.


> "Thus the tokens Ma'am, maam and 'MAAM' are considered to be the same
> 4-character token." So, the quote mark should be ignored, but what...
> we should still store a copy of "ma'am" and "maam" separately, but
> combine them when we go to calculate statistics?
> 
> You can't specify the internal workings of the entries... only the
> external effects.

I'm *not* specifying the implementation, just the requirements. I don't
care if you store "ma'am" and "maam" seperately or not. What I care about
is the results. I expect that every submission will solve these weird
and cantankerous rules in their own unique manner.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia