From c38cbcb0f6558f67e4c5a31e2ad482a5e81555e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Shine Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:39:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] leap: Remove recommendation to DIY in description Leap-year functions don't generally occur in standard libraries. Is there a single example of a language we have that does this? If there is one, then that would be the right way to solve this exercise in that language. Presumably this exercise is primarily placed at the top of core tracks. We should not encourage to re-implement standard library functions at that point. But this is a hypothetical argument. https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/pull/1418 --- exercises/leap/README.md | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/exercises/leap/README.md b/exercises/leap/README.md index f14d9f784..c45e8f464 100644 --- a/exercises/leap/README.md +++ b/exercises/leap/README.md @@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ on every year that is evenly divisible by 4 For example, 1997 is not a leap year, but 1996 is. 1900 is not a leap year, but 2000 is. -If your language provides a method in the standard library that does -this look-up, pretend it doesn't exist and implement it yourself. - ## Notes Though our exercise adopts some very simple rules, there is more to