On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Stephen Chang <stch...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> :) I had started writing up a parsack example, and I was all set to > admonish the OP for not creating a parser when you want a parser but > then I saw it was for a programming contest where I guess this sort of > scanf/regexp hackery is ok? > Generally the purpose of these sorts of programming contests is to solve as many programming problems as you can in the span of, say, 3 hours. So it is all about writing code as fast as you can, nothing else counts. One of the ground rules in the programming contests in my area is that you cannot use any libraries that don't come with the language. So if it comes with the Racket distribution, that's fine. But you can't pre-code up a library of functions you would like to use, and you can't download and install a package from Planet or Github. Does Parsack come with Racket? Is Parsack the quickest way (in terms of time to write the code) to dice the file into a list of datasets? Those are the questions that matter here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
