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What about locale-sensitive output?

I can only support a suggestion that we default to an Culture Invariant locale for the simple reason that these are guaranteed not to change. It could become jolly difficult to test old answers if the …
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Language-Specific Boilerplates to Formalise Submission Validity (in atleast some languages)

Question/Proposal Would there be support for the creation (by community discussion, consensus, etc.) of sets of allowable 'boilerplates' for some languages (i.e. those that it makes some sense for) which … everyone is arguing: if there is no argument, there is no need anyway All of the nice stuff that comes with having objective submission criteria: Comparable answers in the same language No extended discussion
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How to compile/score answers in .NET languages, specifically VB.NET

In General... Coming from a C# golfing background, as far as I'm concerned, as long as csc compiles it without complaining, then it's not a problem, and you don't need any using/import clauses in you …
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C# Lambdas as Answers to questions asking for a Function

Submission Validity My proposal is that a function must be callable (this is generally agreed on meta) either 'directly' (e.g. (code)(arg1, arg2 ...) or by name (e.g. methodname(arg1, arg2 ...)) wher …
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C# Lambdas as Answers to questions asking for a Function

Given the limited involvement here and mixed voting, I've opted to post another proposal based on 'typed lambda parameters' - hopefully this will be more agreeable because it doesn't increase byte cou …
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When to allow flexible input/output

It's up to you I see no issue what-so-ever with restricting IO formats. I agree we should enable all sorts of languages to compute (i.e. not require STDIN, allow functions rather than programs, etc.) …
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Multiple functions without leading/trailing mandatory parts?

Counter Discussion Indeed, one could argue that writing one method has a much lower overhead than writing two (and this is what the question is saying). …
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C# Lambdas as Answers to questions asking for a Function

Examples (for reference in any discussion, feel free to add more...) …
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New users' guides to golfing rules in specific languages

C# Basic Input/Output Submission are either named functions, complete programs, or anonymous functions. Functions take input as parameters and generally return the result (sometimes ref or out param …
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A proposal to combat Meta Bloat™: The Big Consensus Freeze

I'm in favour of tidying everything. I know I'm too lazy to keep up to date with the FAQs that don't apply to C# in particular (means I'm possibly uninformed about the validity of answers in other lan …
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