That sounds excellent! Then the only thing left is to gather a bunch of inspiring people. Thanks for the tip!

I understand that the 'Best Practice' button is subject to some misuse. That begs the question: how can one who is new to programming find proper role models?

Good examples are an excellent resource for learning, but mistaking a bad example for a good one can actually lead one astray! If I cannot trust the 'Best Practice' score, is there a more reliable way to figure out which solutions are ones to be inspired by?

Woops, sloppy! Thanks :)

By the by, Insomnes, do you happen to know how to fork properly?
It appears to think that I changed everything, except for the final brace of the tests... I must be doing something wrong.

My pleasure! If you ever come across code of mine that could use some improvement, don't hesitate to tear it apart. ;)

I recently discovered the regex package, and I was musing on what a good team Pattern and Matcher were when I noticed your choice of variable names...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_%26_Mat

XD A good team indeed.

Excuse me. If I could find a delete button I'd press it, but I can't find one so an edit will have to do.

Ha! I didn't think bitshifts were actually used! Fascinating solution.. :)