Re: Interview question

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 2:30 PM, CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I fully understand that the term /delimiter/ *can be* used interchangeably
with /separator/.

Anyone who shares the same bias as the writer, that the /delimiter/ is
implicitly being understood to be a /separator/, in the context of their
writing, I expect would have a much simpler go at the programming task; they
will not be concerned with all the conspicuous difficulties that could arise
when the task is approached with an alternate view of the /delimiters/.

This is why I brought up the meta-game considerations. Doing the task
as I interpreted it is either an appropriate level of challenge, or
perhaps even already too challenging. To interpret the task in a way
that you find "conspicuously more difficult" would clearly be
inappropriately challenging, especially given the likely time
constraints.

Speaking of which, I did finish coding a solution in RPG. I wasn't
carefully timing myself, but I'm sure it took me well over an hour in
total, and could easily have been longer than two hours.

John