Talk:Permutations by swapping

Does "Python: recursive" fit this task?

The "Python: recursive" solution doesn't seem to use swaps, which I thought was the whole point of this task. We already have a Permutations task for generating permutations in general. --Spoon! 17:58, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

It also doesn't generate the output requested (it's missing the signs). Not that I think it should, though; right now, too much of this task smells of “let's write the task to force my code to be a solution”. OTOH, if I was to take the version that does formally satisfy the task as described, it wouldn't be usable in the other task linked. Oh dear, oh dear! I think this draft task needs cleaning up, and the cleaning needs to be done by someone other than the original author with an eye to maximizing coherence and the ability to implement reasonably in many languages. –Donal Fellows 19:27, 26 July 2012 (UTC)