From: sureshvv@... (suresh vv)
Date: 2001-12-11T19:42:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28198] Re: John Roth dolt (  Re: A challenge to proponents of Unit Testing. )

Robert C. Martin <rmartin @ objectmentor . com> wrote in message news:<d62b1ukh61hal31708f4afr99ppg3utkde@4ax.com>...
> >> >Set<int> sides; // data structure allows no duplicates.
> >> >sides.add(a);
> >> >sides.add(b);
> >> >sides.add(c);
> >> >return sides.length(); // 1 = equilateral, 2=isoceles, 3=scalene.
>         ^^^^^^^^^--oops.
> >> >
> >> >What am I missing?
> >
> 
> The intent was to return a 1 for equilateral, 2 for isoceles, and 3
> for scalene.  Representing the triangle was not part of the job.
> 

Sounds like a cop out. You forgot/ignored the "triangle" part of the problem
and just dealt with 3 numbers, returning the number of unique numbers.

There is a lesson in there somwhere for what happens when you
get away from the "real world".

suresh