The point is to submit elegant code that showcases the features of each language. And the problem is, just to clarify, given a set WC of wildcards in any logical combination, and if WC(S^n) is the set all s in S^n that matches the wildcards, then efficiently generate the complement S^n\WC(S^n). You are free to restate the problem in any equivalent way.
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