Loopholes that are forbidden by default
There are a number of standard loopholes which experienced question-setters seek to explicitly close. However, inexperienced question-setters may unintentionally leave them open, or respondents may try...
View ArticleA Better Help Center
This question is somewhat in response to The one limiting stat for us still being in beta where the consensus seemed to be that question quality was the main issue. I definitely agree.I believe that...
View ArticleSandbox for Proposed Challenges
This "sandbox" is a place where Code Golf users can get feedback on prospective challenges they wish to post to main. This is useful because writing a clear and fully specified challenge on your first...
View ArticleDefault for Code Golf: Input/Output methods
It looks like we have a consensus that we want certain defaults for the format which answers are expected in for code-golf. On that poll, the question arose twice, which input/output formats should be...
View ArticleList of bounties with no deadline
This is a list of unofficial, deadline-less (hence not searchable) bounties offered by users on various challenges on the main site.Disclaimer: There is no guarantee that the user will award the bounty...
View ArticleWhat programming languages have been created by CGCC users?
Language-creation has become a popular activity on CGCC. A decent portion of answers, especially code-golf answers, are written in languages invented by the community. These are also languages that...
View ArticleGolfing Class of a language
I feel like we may have enough data on this site to meaningfully break programming languages into classes.What I mean by classes is akin to Go's ranking system:If a player can win 90% of even games...
View ArticleDefinite policy about duplicate answers
Every now and then, we get an answer flag the declares an answer a duplicate of another. So far, I haven't really acted on them – except for leaving a comment if the flagger hadn't done so already –...
View Articledefault format for [polynomials]
Some languages do not have native ways of representing polynomials, others do. Many times a list of coefficients (in one or the other order) works well. In order to avoid explicitly specifying this...
View ArticleWhat are our specific abbreviations and terms?
Newcomers to codegolf.SE are often compelled to ask what many of our abbreviations and terms mean. Let us list them here so this information always will be easily available.Return to FAQ index
View ArticleWe need to talk about the Sandbox
Warning: this post will contain things that people don't want to hear. But it needs to happen.Now that that's out of the way, let's get down to business.The Sandbox was a brilliant idea. It allowed...
View ArticleIs a transliteration tool enough to grant count as SBCS?
Prompted by this. I'll speak about Dyalog APL here, but this could really apply to any language.BackgroundDyalog APL has its own SBCS called ⎕AV. For backwards compatibility reasons Dyalog Ltd. is...
View ArticleSorting answers
Some popular challenges have many many answers and often a language is used more than once, so :Is there a way to sort answers so that they appear in the order according to the name of a language OR...
View ArticleThe many users of CGCC
What are the stories behind your username and avatar?Some users' usernames and/or their avatars have a significance behind them. What about yours?
View ArticleBest of CGCC 2023 - Call for categories
UpdateNominations are now open!If you want to submit any more categories throughout the year, until the last few weeks of the year, you can still do so by answering this question. If a category here...
View ArticleCast your vote for "Best of CGCC 2023"!
Final PhaseYou have chosen the categories and the nominees for 2023, and now it is time to pick the winners!Each of the nine categories is represented by an answer to this question. Each answer...
View ArticleWhy is the site logo a medal?
What does a medal have to do with codes and computers? Is it a reference to the site badges and privileges? Or maybe a reference to the Olympiad awards? Also, why is it between two accolades?
View ArticleAre there specific types of code golf challenges on this site?
I posted a question in hope of starting a shortest code challenge, but it seems to attract lots of downvotes and the only answer tried to help as a programming problem. One comment on the question...
View ArticleHow is Subleq code counted?
How are "bytes" counted in Subleq, in which code is a list of integers with no fixed size?
View ArticleWhy was my flag disputed on an invalid joke answer?
A long time ago I posted a cops-and-robbers challenge in which I (perhaps foolishly) permitted unicode solutions but included the following rule:You may use any Unicode characters for these, but please...
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