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Revision as of 18:11, 15 August 2022
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:::: Perhaps the wording could be changed to "A character for this purpose should be whatever is natural for your programming language".
:::: Mandating the collating sequence would disadvantage languages where the specified sequence wasn't the one "natural" to the programming language and surely over-complicate the code. The task is a simple sorting application, requiring demonstration of how to get at the individual characters of a string.--[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 08:59, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
:::::So it'd be ok if "N" comes before "a"? In ASCII it does, alphabetically it does not. Even case-insensitive, it still isn't specified which of e.g. "nN" or "Nn" would be correct. If the tasks indeed just wants a simple ASCII sort then it should just come out and say so - all of the extraneous language in the task description does NOT clarify that. If the task is merely to demonstrate individual character retrieval, then there are simpler ways to demonstrate (e.g, just count the chars, or reverse the string, etc) without opening up the can-of-worms of lexicographical order. If the task has something ''else'' in mind, then it fails to convey it adequately. --[[User:Davbol|Davbol]] ([[User talk:Davbol|talk]]) 18:10, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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