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From: "Michael Bindschadler" <mikeREMOVETHISbind@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MATLAB Central Spring Contest
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 16:24:05 +0000 (UTC)
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"Nicholas Howe" <NikHow@hotmail.com> wrote in message
<fvbv0f$b3l$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Enjoying the new contest!  Thank you all for organizing it.
> 
> A question:  is the routine that checks for forbidden
> functions available?  More than once in past contests I have
> had entries disqualified because I accidentally left in a
> forbidden command I had been using for debugging.
> 
> P.S.  Congratulations, Alan!

Yes, Congrats Alan!

On the other note, I would have benefited from having the
routine that checks for forbidden functions!  All my entries
in darkness failed because I accidentally left an error()
call in helper code that I copied from a function I wrote
for another purpose.  I assure you I had no nefarious
purposes, and it would have been nice to find out they were
going to fail before I submitted them. Please consider
releasing this code in the future.

Thanks,

Mike Bindschadler