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LOL. I've very much written code like that :) (i.e. trying to emphasize some aspect and losing my follow code reviewers). Code clarity is Hard.

Thank you for the reminder, it is a very good lesson

Amazing! I liked your solution. I learned something new not.

Very clever! Also note you could early exit with 'false' in the loop if r ever goes negative.

tf is this

Approved with some adjustments after 9 years :-)

thank you for your service

Me too! It is so long since I wrote this.

The return *sz, ret; is really same as just return ret; but I think I was trying to emphasise that the sz is also a "returned" value. Probably it was unnecessarily clever (?) and caused more confusion than anything else.

this is good for solving

Your code is wrong. Not a kata issue, it fails tests like this one:

Test.assertEquals(roadKill("=======t=a===a===c====="), "cat");

Also note this:

If it ever happens that I can't find all of the remains, or if there are gaps or other parts that I don't recognise, then I record it as ?? in my dead-critter notebook.

I got the error Expected bobcat to equal '??'. But bobcat does exist in ANIMALS! I use console.log to watch if I was doing something wrong, but I was not!
I was doing in javascript!

Enabled in this fork

Because array indices start from 0.