Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Update instructions.md to specify the error #388

Closed
wants to merge 1 commit into from
Closed

Update instructions.md to specify the error #388

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions exercises/practice/hamming/.docs/instructions.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -20,5 +20,4 @@ The Hamming Distance is useful for lots of things in science, not just biology,

The Hamming distance is only defined for sequences of equal length, so
an attempt to calculate it between sequences of different lengths should
not work. The general handling of this situation (e.g., raising an
exception vs returning a special value) may differ between languages.
not work. Here we expect a return value of -1 to indicate that an error has occurred.