In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I take them to be required: "A paragraph consists of one or more
> sentences, separated by sequences of whitespace characters (spaces and/or
> at most one newline)," and "a sentence consists of one or more words,
> separated by sequences of whitespace characters, where the last one ends
> in a period." Combined with the above rule, I take this to mean that
> end-of-sentence is "/\.(\s+|\z)/". Unfortunately, while neither of us
> appears to have any doubts about the rules, we don't quite agree...
>
I was sure because I actually asked the judges...
(about ircnet golf random cases testprogram)
>
> How did you automatically test the entries? The score program's no longer
> on the web.
The testprogram only tested that the output was some permutation.
The rest of the work was inspection by the judge (me).
>
>> Also have look at the winner of the lapm 1 challenge. It will
>> succesfully finish the testcase, but will not finish until long after
>> the sun becomes a white dwarf. Reject or not ?
>
> If it can't finish the test case, I think either it should be rejected, or
> the golfer should argue that the tests be changed.
>
But it does finish the testcase. it just takes some patience....
