Unsatisfied Bounty

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My bounty on Coating Every Pancake expires shortly but no one has answered the question in the Pancake Stack language which was the goal of the bounty.

Should I just let the bounty run out and award it to the best existing answer? Can I request an extension? Are there other options?

I was distracted by all the unnecessary global statements in the implementation. You don't need it where you are mutating a variable. only when it is rebound — gnibbler, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:34
For the record, I tried, but the fact that it's impossible to reach the third element of the stack or below without modifying the top two items makes this quite difficult! — Doorknob, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:17
@gnibbler Sorry about that. I just threw it together in about 2 hours coding on a Saturday. Just for fun. I didn't really care that much about if I was doing it completely right. I thought that the global statements were necessary, however. Now I know better. Thanks. — Justin, Oct 7, 2014 at 21:41
@gnibbler There: ideone.com/h0Nxst . I didn't replace the link in the esolang page, because Calvin's Hobbies created a link for his/her bounty. — Justin, Oct 7, 2014 at 21:48
@Quincunx, you still need the ones for the rebinding of variables. eg line = . Otherwise a local variable is created instead. Sorry for the confusion — gnibbler, Oct 7, 2014 at 21:50
@gnibbler Those two places are the only places where that's needed. Sorry for not thinking about it. — Justin, Oct 7, 2014 at 22:07
I'm in a similar boat; I've got a bounty expiring where the only answer is by me as a community answer. :( — Will, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:37

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:29:45Z

See How does the bounty system work? for more information. To answer your specifics:

Bounties cannot be extended.
You can award the bounty to any answer that you didn't write yourself.
If you don't award the bounty, and there is an answer written after the bounty started that has a score of 2 or more, that answer is auto-awarded half the bounty.
- If there is more than one such answer, then the answer with the highest score is auto-awarded, with ties broken by earliest posting date.

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