Talk:Box the compass: Difference between revisions

==Odd omission from task description==

In 1. the task requires you to write a function that translates <i>degrees</i> to points, and then in point 2. doesn't in fact require you to test that function. Many of the solutions cheat and just use the index of the test entries (0..32) rather than the actual angles to construct the point-name table, so the scattering of the acceptance values is, in fact, completely useless. Printing out the angle makes it <i>appear</i> that the angle to point translation is being tested, when in fact it isn't. I was going to mark the [[Perl]] entry as incorrect, when I realized that it was fulfilling the letter of the task without fulfilling the spirit. --[[User:TimToady|TimToady]] 17:50, 16 July 2011 (UTC)