Isn't the hardness a sign that its a bad idea? If you *can't* just make
that cheating, why not make it allowed? Either folks'll follow a 'no
communication through code' rule or they won't. It seems like trying to
keep people from communicating outside the game is impossible ...
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Subject: Re: Teams?
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Yanick wrote:
>
> Or comments, useless variables and variable names of more
> than 4 letters could be declared illegal.
>
More than 1 letter, surely? This _is_ golf.
But it doesn't really help. You can still put lots of useless junk at the
end of your program, and communicate through it. I think it would be hard
to
make rules which would be effictive in outlawing anything like this.
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