For the first 5, I've got 2,3,8,14,7. Anybody got tighter solutions?
I got 7 on the third challenge with that solution:
transitive([],0,[])Return True to Win
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#72For the first 5, I've got 2,3,8,14,7. Anybody got tighter solutions?
The counter one (level 4) can be done with 11 chars. Solution below, found on Reddit[1].
Also, I could not manage fewer than 9 characters for level 3. (Edit: thanks @ensard)
Spoiler here: x=>_=>x=-~x
And also in this link: [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4wd32v/return_...
Re: Return True to Win
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#74The game shows us how ugly JS is.
Indeed, I refuse to believe there should be a solution to the 'reflexive' task.
That one isn't specific to Javascript, though. If you can find a mainstream language that doesn't have any values that aren't equal to themselves, I'll give you a cookie.
(Going from memory of the last time I tried this challenge, since I can't get it to load at the moment.)
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#76Does anybody really know why JS's type system was designed the way it was? It seems so out of whack with what people want out of a language, dynamically typed or otherwise.
Obligatory - https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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#77Does anybody really know why JS's type system was designed the way it was? It seems so out of whack with what people want out of a language, dynamically typed or otherwise.
It's because Eich was told to make JS C-like. In C, an empty array, an empty string, 0, false and null are all the same value: a word with all bits 0. So in JS, those are all are falsy and == to each other.