Granted that what I've written is not elegant/compact/idiomatic, but just wanted to know if it's so bad that it justifies the weird expression on the interviewer's face?
It's just a very simple, even primitive task, so your code should be equally simple (the KISS principle). If I were hiring someone, anything that's not along the lines of
for ( 1 .. 100 ) {
if ( ... ) {
...
}
else {
...
}
}
wouldn't really be acceptable. It's not a test of programming skills, it's a test of common sense (IMO). I'm afraid your code fails it, and it doesn't even show off your programming chops (for reasons already covered by others).
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