Kata

Thanks

You're welcome, keep it going.

Isn't it counted as one?

No, had it in one of my randomized test cases and it was 2

I see the issue: y is counted as a vowel, which it sometimes is, and sometimes not. I have to find a way around it... will get to work.

But in the meantime, I really like this random haiku you quoted:

Guilty soviet mayor
Chase terrorist folk...
...war!

What a clever piece of (artificial) intelligence ;-)

Isn't "mayor" one syllable?

I am unsure if it's worth the complications to distinguish when 'y' is a vowel and when it is not. English syllables are not easy; if you want to do it fully correct - well, you can't.

I've always pronounced "mayor" with 2 syllables, but, according to Merriam-Webster, there are two pronunciations (with the 2-syllables being the dominant). Either way, "layer" is not pronounced "lair" (except maybe by the type of people who say "nukular"?).

English syllables are not easy; if you want to do it fully correct - well, you can't.

Agreed here, but in that case, the specifics should be outlined in the Description. Another example is besides. The reference solution correctly recognizes that the word is 2 syllables, handling the rule about the silent "E" words even for plurals. But then in that case it would fail with a word such as fixes.

The Description could be improved if there were more detail covering the special cases that are going to be tested in this kata.

...or maybe I will just remove these pesky words from the list! :-)

In fact, I really consider that removing a few words from the word list (e.g. layer, mayor) would be the least painful solution, and would not invalidate current solutions.

It looks like the part of a word that has a y with adjacent vowels is considered one syllable in the tests, so a word like yoyo is regarded as one syllable.

I subtracted the "problematic" words from the list in ruby and python. However, I would need some help with JS.

@JohanWiltink: could you do a simple update to the JS version (if it is a simple - list or similar)? Here are the list of words to be removed: ["anyone", "beyond", "buyer", "employee", "employer", "everyone", "layer", "mayor", "player", "prayer", "taxpayer"]

Thanks

@anter69, I'll leave it up to you and @JohanWiltink to decide when the tests are satisfactory. Feel free to mark this issue resolved at your discretion.

if it is a simple - list or similar

You can't coerce an array into an integer, so you're doing NaN - NaN => NaN. I'll see if i can fix this, Johan doesn't know Python or Ruby.

Uh, I don't have edit access,

I didn't get notifications for this thread, so I missed that request. Thanks anter!

( everyone? two wrongs seem to make a right there. :P prayer? isn't that one syllable? )

Let's just skip this ;-)

Wrong forum.

Go bother an admin. They're the only ones who can change that.

LOL

you're still not banned, you cheater...? :/

You are funny.i do it by myself.

yeah, sure, moron...

Thanks, fixed

Thanks! I expected about 6 kyu, but what the heck ;-)

Thanks!