[quiz] Re: (Partial?) solution to the second quiz

[Marco Baringer]

"Pablo Barenbaum" <foones at gmail.com> writes:

> I post a partial solution to the off-side-reader quiz.
> I say "partial" because, even though it reads in off-side mode,
> I'm not sure if it works as it is supposed in every case, i.e.:
> - what about blank lines?

ignore them.

> - what about comments?

interesting question. i'd say that you can just ignore both ; and #|
style comments. handling them makes for a good bonus question.

> - the !# is supposed to be alone in a single line?

yes. i assumed, though did not explicitly state, that the opening #!
and closing !# would be be themselves an a single line.

> I'm afraid I tend overuse format and loop.

:)

> It is also possibly very inefficient: it generates a new string
> with the "correct", inherent, parens made explicit, then reads it.

that sounds like a perfectly good technique to me, don't worry about
the efficency of it.

-- 
-Marco
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