Stephen Turner wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Ton Hospel wrote: > > > > I suppose it's the \0 => binary zero ? > > > > If so, neither Eugene nor me missed that (see our comments), but solutions > > with binary zero were not allowed this round. > > > > Right. I was very surprised if either of you missed it, but when I found > that you both had, I assumed it wasn't allowed for some reason. > > But why didn't the referees allow it? There's nothing in the rules about it, > is there? And surely it wasn't just the problems with submitting it, because > other non-printable characters are as bad. Did they give a reason?
I am also interested in the reason why the refs disallowed it. I would have a tendency to disallow a byte that matched [^ -~\n\t] if I were in charge (oh, wait, I will be :) -- Rick Klement
