RolfAndreassen comments on Quixey Challenge - Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a winner, win $50. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 20 January 2012 01:51:17AM 4 points [-]

It's clearly not big enough. :)

Comment author: Automaton 20 January 2012 09:53:36AM 2 points [-]

If you didn't put a colon between 0 and return, it's invalid syntax.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 20 January 2012 07:37:02PM 0 points [-]

Ok, that's a fair cop. I don't usually code in Python and could well have got that wrong. Still, if that were the problem then the desired solution should have been a correction of my syntax error, not a change from two returns to one; so I stand by my criticism that the database is too small.

Comment author: Solvent 20 January 2012 04:02:09AM 0 points [-]

Isn't the "return depth == 0" solution simpler and so superior? (That's a question, I don't actually know Python that well.)

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 20 January 2012 05:51:10AM 2 points [-]

A point of taste. My solution makes it explicit what is being checked for: Unclosed parens.