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Default Rules: Loopholes

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What sort of loopholes are assumed to be disallowed in any challenge on this site?

One loophole per answer, please. Vote up answers if you want them disallowed, and down otherwise.

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Bypassing source restrictions by storing data in the file name

In some languages, like Pxem, programs are usually stored in the file name and the file's contents are irrelevant. On Somewhere Else, a Pxem answer has been disqualified before because the file content did not adhere to restrictions even if the file name did.

I propose that the area where the source code is stored should adhere to restrictions. There might be some cases in which this won't work but I'll let the voters decide what's fair for this loophole and what isn't.

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Lundin‭ wrote about 3 years ago
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If there is to be such a rule, it needs to be more specific. In C and C++ you have various tricks such as the #line directive which can be used to trick the program into thinking the file name is something else - might be handy in some scenarios. There's also the argv/argc command line parameters where argc[0] is the name of the executable, but also a writeable location that could be exploited to save explicit variable declarations.

Lundin‭ wrote about 3 years ago
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Examples like the above seem like valid clever tricks that should be encouraged rather than forbidden.