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[–] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Now please publish it as a Node.js module and in 3 weeks, it will be in Top 10 most used modules, being used in 90% of Fortune 500 corporations.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But… does it pass all the tests?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it does, they don't have enough of the right tests.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What would the output be for the following:

99 Beers on the Wall!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Or for "CAFÉ"?

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it would be

11 beers on the wall.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly as long as literals are properly converted, I don't see any other way to do this in an entirely encoding agnostic way

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This will not work on Unicode

Greek and Arabic have cases as well

[–] MoSal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This will not work on Unicode

Correct.

Greek and Arabic have cases as well

Who told you that?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 years ago

Brain fart, I meant Cyrillic but I wrote the wrong word! Good catch thanks!

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I hope this is O(n!)