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Re: A little morning puzzle

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Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why don't you all look at the code(python and C), and tell me how much
>> code it took to write the functions the other's examples made use of
>> to complete the task.
>>
>> Just because you can use a function, and make it look easier, doesn't
>> mean the function you used had less code than mine, so if you look at
>> the whole of what you used to make it simpler, mine was on point.
> 
> I understood the sarcastic comments (the first one, at least) to be
> referring to your solution as bad not due to complexity (I actually
> thought it was quite simple), but because it does not solve the
> problem as stated.  The problem posed by the OP was to find a set of
> common keys that are associated with the same values in each dict.
> Your solution takes only one predetermined key-value pair and counts
> how many times it occurs in the dicts, which isn't even close to what
> was requested.  With your comment of "Might be better ones, though", I
> actually thought that you were aware of this and were being
> intentionally satirical.

Unlikely.

~Ethan~

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Re: A little morning puzzle Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-09-19 14:09 +0200
  Re: A little morning puzzle Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> - 2012-09-20 09:28 -0700
    Re: A little morning puzzle Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 23:44 -0400
      Re: A little morning puzzle alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 20:46 -0700
        Re: A little morning puzzle Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 17:22 -0400
        RE: A little morning puzzle "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-09-27 17:58 +0000
    Re: A little morning puzzle Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 22:51 -0600
    Re: A little morning puzzle Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-09-24 14:18 -0700
    Re: A little morning puzzle Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 18:07 -0400
    Re: A little morning puzzle Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 17:01 -0600
    Re: A little morning puzzle Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 19:13 -0400

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