Questions tagged [error-message]
For challenges that involve error output, such as compiler/interpreter warnings or errors.
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Shortest English prompt to produce LLM falsehood [closed]
Since programming is predicted to become natural linguisized by the unstoppable advances in LLM technology, perhaps we can code golf LLMs themselves.
Produce the shortest question that is not an ...
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iHateOddNumbers
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Given a non-negative number, check if it's odd or even. In case it's even, output that number. Otherwise, throw any exception/error that your language supports, and stop the program.
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Reverse and error!
You have to write a program, if its source code is reversed, then it will error.
For example, if your source is ABC, then reversing it and writing ...
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Largest Error Message in 100 bytes [duplicate]
The goal is to raise the error message with the most bytes! The error message may not be generated by the program itself, such as Python's raise. errors that do not ...
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Generate a RecursionError [closed]
Write the shortest possible code cause an error due to recursion too deep
Example error in python
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Example error in ...
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Russian Roulette, varying chances [duplicate]
Russian roulette
It's Russian roulette! The rules are simple. Shoot a revolver with n slots for bullets and one round inside at your head and you might not die!
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Shortest way to get an EOF Error [closed]
It's simple, simply output text to STDERR containing the string EOF.
Input/Output
Your input will be none; however, you should output the message to STDERR.
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Shortest way to get a TypeError
It's simple, simply write the shortest code to raise a TypeError.
In Python you can do:
raise TypeError
However it should be ...
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You failed everything! [closed]
Your goal is simple: to fail everything. More precisely, you should write the shortest code that triggers a compilation/interpretation error, or a runtime error.
What does not count
Failing with ...
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Get the lowest possible pylint score within 128 bytes of python
pylint has no lower bound on the scores it will give your code. It uses the following metric to score code, with the maximum score being 10:
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We had a question once which only failed on Sundays
Inspired by We had a unit test once which only failed on Sundays, write a program or function that does nothing but throw an error when it is Sunday, and exit gracefully on any other day.
Rules:
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Shortest Error Message
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Write the shortest program that, when compiled or executed, produces a fatal error message smaller than the program itself. The error message may not be generated by the program itself, ...
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Quine/Error Quine Polyglot
Your task is simple: Write a program that can be run in two languages. It should be a normal quine (prints its own source code) in language 1, and should be an error quine (generates an error message ...
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Exit Code Golfing
Inspired by this default for IO.
The Task
Write a program that, given an input integer x between 0 and 255, crashes with exit code ...
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1 character typo generating most error messages from C++ compilation
It seems that simple changes to a C++ file, especially with templates, can generate pages of errors. This contest is to see what the largest "bang of the buck" is, that is the more verbose error ...
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