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Tips for golfing in 05AB1E
Do you have any tips for code-golfing in 05AB1E, a golfing language created by Adnan?
Your tips should be at least somewhat specific to 05AB1E.
Please post one tip per answer.
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Tips for golfing in Python
What general tips do you have for golfing in Python? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Python (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Tips for golfing in Haskell
What general tips do you have for golfing in Haskell? I am looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Haskell. Please post only one ...
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Tips for golfing in Java
Are there any useful shortcuts that can be used in Java?
As shown below, import already adds at least 17 characters to a program.
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Tips for golfing in <all languages>
The aim of this post is to gather all the golfing tips that can be easily applied to <all languages> rather than a specific one.
Only post answers that its ...
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"Hello, World!"
So... uh... this is a bit embarrassing. But we don't have a plain "Hello, World!" challenge yet (despite having 35 variants tagged with hello-world, and counting). While this is not the most ...
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Golf you a quine for great good!
Using your language of choice, golf a quine.
A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.
No cheating -- that means ...
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Tips for golfing in C
What general tips do you have for golfing in C? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to C (e.g. "remove comments" is not an ...
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I want 8 bits for every character!
This is the reverse of this challenge.
Given an encoded list of codepoints and the characters used to encode it, you need to decompress it to its original string.
For example, given the encoded list <...
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Tips for golfing in JavaScript
What general tips do you have for golfing in JavaScript? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to JavaScript (e.g. "remove ...
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Tips for golfing in PowerShell
What general tips do you have for golfing in Windows PowerShell? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to PowerShell (e.g. "...
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Making Future Posts Runnable Online with Stack Snippets [closed]
Stack Snippets were recently added to PPCG! Reminiscent of JSFiddle, Stack Snippets allow HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be run directly in posts!
Here is a very simple Stack Snippet:
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Tips for golfing in R
I'm looking for tips for golfing in the R statistical language. R is perhaps an unconventional choice for Golf. However, it does certain things very compactly (sequences, randomness, vectors, and ...
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Tips for code-golfing in C#
What general tips do you have for golfing in C#? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to C# (e.g. "remove comments" is not an ...
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Is this number a prime?
Believe it or not, we do not yet have a code golf challenge for a simple primality test. While it may not be the most interesting challenge, particularly for "usual" languages, it can be nontrivial in ...
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