Now please publish it as a Node.js module and in 3 weeks, it will be in Top 10 most used modules, being used in 90% of Fortune 500 corporations.

But… does it pass all the tests?

here’s a more nuanced question: in school iirc my teacher was implementing terminal 2-human tic-tac-toe with us and used an only slightly less egregious 7-by-3 AND/OR gate to see whether any player had won. because I didn’t like all the repetition, my version iterated through a 7-by-3 list of lists of indecies instead. every toy programming problem I’ve seen since was so general that it didn’t go well with this kind of hardcoding either

Honestly as long as literals are properly converted, I don’t see any other way to do this in an entirely encoding agnostic way