Questions tagged [answers]
For questions regarding answers posted to challenges. This tag is not for questions about a specific answer, but for answers in general
185
questions
2
votes
1
answer
132
views
Do we want a banner warning about our policy on AI generated content?
Since January 10th, sites have been able to request to opt in to have a banner shown on answers reminding answerers on their site's policy regarding AI generated content.
This leads to two questions:
...
2
votes
1
answer
81
views
How is Subleq code counted?
How are "bytes" counted in Subleq, in which code is a list of integers with no fixed size?
1
vote
1
answer
124
views
What counts towards the byte count in a code golf answer?
I use Racket as my primary programming language and have been having fun the past week solving challenges using it. I came across a few answers from other programming languages that use TIO's header ...
3
votes
1
answer
65
views
Find answers in given language
Sorry for a stupid question, but I read How do I search? and didn’t understand:
How to find answers in a given (programming) language?
11
votes
4
answers
399
views
How do we handle answers that have later become invalid due to external circumstances?
From time to time, answers can be posted to the site which, at the time are valid but later become invalid without any fault of the original answerer. For example, a number of answers to this ...
5
votes
2
answers
216
views
What is our consensus on languages which do not halt by design?
Current consensus seems to be that programs must terminate by default. This makes sense in general. However, does this bar use of languages which are not designed with a halt state (other than ...
3
votes
2
answers
119
views
For lambdas that is, how should we input them into tio.run?
following this meta codegolf stackexchange post, I've stopped using declarations for lambda functions, but one problem this creates is that since you're only inputting the lambda body and not its ...
18
votes
0
answers
171
views
Correct flag usage on invalid submissions
Recently, a couple of invalid answers have been flagged as NAA. This is somewhat of a duplicate of this answer on our policy, but I want to mention this because it's important that everyone is using ...
10
votes
1
answer
249
views
Handling old, popular, creative, but non-competitive answers
Take a look at this answer: Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code.
This is the most upvoted answer on our site right now. However, as many have pointed out, by modern ...
8
votes
1
answer
173
views
Can Whispers programs ignore a final output line?
This was first asked by Leo in the Whispers chat room:
But I have a general question about Whispers submissions: couldn't we avoid counting the final Output line most of the time? We can consider the ...
1
vote
1
answer
139
views
What to count in assembly?
Yes, I've checked this post (How are bytes counted in assembly), but I'm asking a different question. I'm asking, if I have an .asm file, an ...
7
votes
1
answer
134
views
What's our policy on "reposting" older answers with newer versions?
On occasion, especially with a couple of specific, inactive users, I'll craft a Jelly answer identical to an existing answer, except for a few byte-saving substitutions that have been added to the ...
2
votes
0
answers
72
views
Are compile-time solutions valid?
I have a couple answers here that work at compile-time and just posted another, and I was wondering if such solutions are allowed. I'm not talking about just proper functions that can run at compile-...
8
votes
2
answers
212
views
Should I upvote an answer based on how much it was improved?
Should I hold how much an answer's score increased/decreased (depending on the winning criterion) as an indicator of how good it is and whether or not I should upvote it?
I used to see answers golfed ...
11
votes
5
answers
439
views
Why are some users so quick to jump on a bandwagon?
I've been lurking on this site long before I made my account, and I've seen many cases where people are downvoted simply because they post an answer in the same language as someone else and it happens ...