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That prank is horrible because the document is self-contradictory yet assumes a single correct interpretation, unless the document is very carefully written and
by judk 12y ago
That prank is horrible because the document is self-contradictory yet assumes a single correct interpretation, unless the document is very carefully written and formatted using an agreed semantics.
A well-written document would be a great illustration of Haskell-style lazy evaluation, though
- sokoloff 12y agoI actually got that test in middle school. (I presume my teacher read about it and thought it was a cool idea.) The one I got was very explicit: Read the entire test first, and only after you've read all the questions and instructions are you to begin work. Let's just say that I failed and I was pissed about it, without any particularly good basis or justification, other than being 12-ish years old.