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What exactly does it mean for code to be “Working Code”?
Why is it that Code Review's definition of "working code" is so misaligned with so many people's expectations?
@rolfl
Well, we've had a lot of discussion about broken code on meta, but we don't ...
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Are code snippets with known memory leaks broken?
As part of our check-list for questions on CodeReview, we require that code is working to the best of the askers knowledge.
Does code with a known memory leak qualify is broken per this rule?
On the ...
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Can working code be: off-topic -> not-working?
This question here: Shortest possible way of printing a specific board
Summary:
The code requirement is to print out a grid of text.
The code does in fact print the grid
The way it does that, is ...
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May another user fix broken code in a question to make it on-topic?
If we find that a question contains obviously broken code, our standard procedure is to close the question, sending the author back to the drawing board.
But is it acceptable for another user to edit ...
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OP says it works, the contest engine says it doesn't
What do we do when OP says his solution works, but the contest engine says it doesn't? Should we give it the benefit of the doubt, as "It works to the best of my knowledge.", or close it as broken ...
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Should mostly working but a little bit broken code stay or be deleted?
I posted the question Parsing structured text in Java
At first I thought it was working, later I have found a bug in the code. Should it stay or should it be deleted?
Update: I have fixed the bug in ...
