Timeline for Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods
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| Dec 8, 2023 at 7:59 | comment | added | Philippos | Can someone give an example of a challenge that gets more interesting this way? | |
| Nov 4, 2022 at 10:25 | history | edited | Kai Burghardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
insert link to https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1072/94076
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| Nov 4, 2022 at 10:14 | history | edited | Kai Burghardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 30, 2021 at 1:28 | comment | added | Chris Bouchard | I'll say, I don't know of a situation where this could save bytes, but I don't see a reason to ban it. It's not the same as the loophole of assuming the program will have a fixed value controlled by the programmer. | |
| May 30, 2021 at 1:26 | comment | added | Chris Bouchard |
Or you can run it without mv via something like exec -a arg0 ./program arg1 arg2 in bash or execlp("program", arg0, arg1, arg2, 0) in C. From an OS perspective, $0 is just a parameter that we usually leave set to the default value.
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 11:10 | comment | added | pxeger |
I don't really see how this is stored data. Instead of running ./program arg1 arg2, you run mv program arg0; ./arg0 arg1 arg2.
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 11:02 | comment | added | Dingus | In some sense I guess this isn't much different from taking input from a file, which is allowed. But I imagine that file is meant to be a fixed target, not a moving one. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 10:50 | comment | added | Dingus | I don't really see how this isn't stored program data (where the data is one of the inputs). Leaving that aside, how is this different from hardcoding? | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 7:51 | comment | added | pxeger | @Dingus no, as in the user must rename the executable to a string, and that string is one of the inputs. It is not stored program data | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 1:57 | comment | added | Dingus | This is a default loophole. If taking input through the executable name, those bytes count towards the score. | |
| S Jan 5, 2021 at 20:40 | history | answered | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Jan 5, 2021 at 20:40 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by pxeger |