From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T22:48:01+09:00
Subject: Re: String generalization

> * Give some constraints about how different sets of example strings would
> influence each other.
> * Define a test suite f.e.
> 
> I think along these lines
> If the program has only one string "acccd" it will generalize to ".+"
> if you give a second one
> [ "addff", "" ] it will generalize to ".*"
> if you give the following data
> [  "129", "0x1ef" ], ["add", ""] it shall create "\d+|0x[0-9a-f]+", ".*"
> etc. etc.
Uh-oh. I definitely like the idea to do something like this (i.e. to define
a quiz based on the above problem). But imho the
problem as you described it is in some way a machine learning problem - 
i.e. a quite hard one. I am really new here, so i am not sure about the 
usual level of the Ruby Quiz puzzles - but this seems to me a master 
thesis level problem rather than a quiz question ;-)

bw,
Peter