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  • Voile Avatar

    Records can contain random errors, such as string corruption, misuse of specification format versions, and unspecified log levels

    Errors are arbitrary and the expected handling is undefined. It is only possible via repeatedly failing against the tests and guess what the author wanted.

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    There are no sample tests.

    There are no random tests either.

  • Opabinia Avatar

    Alright, thanks, enjoyed that one! It was a nice practical programming challenge for a relative Clojure n00b—helped make me feel more like a real Clojure programmer! 😁

    The problems are that 1) It's a shame Clojurians don't have access to more advanced or interesting parsing libraries on CodeWars—Clojure has some fantastic options in this realm, so it's a real shame, and we don't even get the lovely spec library which starts from Clojure 1.9 😕, aaaand 2) It's quite hard honing in on the exact, specific interpretation of the data, as not only can you fail and parse less data than required, it's possible with regexes to rescue more correct data than is actually specified!

    Also, I'd like to submit some sample tests, but I think the idea for this kata is that you write them yourself, isn't it...? In that case, would you mind making that clear in the in-line comments?

    Thanks for the nice challenge!

  • Opabinia Avatar

    I see that this kata is ideal for solving using clojure.spec, but unfortunately that core library isn't available in the Clojure 1.8 that Codewars supports! Hopefully there'll be an update soon. Nonetheless, I'm going to give this kata a fair go.