That's when the flustered interviewee can either fight (patch his solution) or flight (start all over using a class with refs). The most obvious patch is to use

That's when the flustered interviewee can either fight (patch his solution) or flight (start all over using a class with refs). The most obvious patch is to use a large hashmap instead of a massive array. Still inefficient, but no longer that desperate (and actually has some added benefits).