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::::: Sure, understood. I think people are just pointing out that the task description was not as clear to some of us as you wanted it to be, partly because the term "palindrome" is not actually defined in the task. The linked Wikipedia article focuses mostly on natural language palindromes, as does the Latin example. As a linguist myself, I admit I find those more interesting than formal strings, and both are valid. For your more restrictive and computationally general idea, maybe specifying a formal mathematical statement of a palindromic sequence would have helped. In any case, the one type of solution is convertible to the other with a little extra string handling, so it's not a huge deal. And thanks for the explanations of your POV. --[[User:Snoman|Snoman]] 08:39, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
::::::: The wikipedia's article was linked just to clarify the sense of palindromicity, but my initial wording should make it clear that the task was thought with "computer vision" in mind: <cite>check if a '''sequence of characters (or bytes)''' is a palindrome or not</cite>; <cite>It is not mandatory to handle properly encodings</cite>; <cite>The function must not ignore spaces and punctuations</cite>; then, for the given example, I specified <cite>To do your test with it, you must make it all the same case and strip spaces.</cite>. Anyway, if people are happier with other defintions, it's ok to change the task description, as far as the rewriting does not "invalidate" all the codes (or people should rewrite the codes too for task compliance) --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 18:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
:::::: I would recommend a rephrasing:
:::::: "This task requires a modular design: You must implement a function which tests if an arbitrary sequence of characters or bytes is a palindrome. You must also implement a wrapper which normalizes text, removing spaces, case differences, and punctuation." --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 14:21, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
::::::: If people agree, go for it. I don't see my sentences ambiguous anyway. --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 18:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
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