The word-count exercise has been overhauled as part of a project to make practice exercises more consistent and friendly.
For more context, please see the discussion in the forum, as well as the pull request that updated the exercise in the problem-specifications repository:
If you approve this pull request, I will eventually merge it. However, if you are happy with this change please merge the pull request, as it will get the changes into the hands of the students much more quickly.
If this pull request contradicts the exercise on your track, please add a review with request changes. This will block the pull request from getting merged.
Otherwise, as discussed in the forum post linked to above, we aim to take an optimistic merging approach.
If you wish to suggest tweaks to these changes, please open a pull request to the exercism/problem-specifications repository to discuss, so that everyone who has an interest in the shared exercise descriptions can participate.
The word-count exercise has been overhauled as part of a project to make practice exercises more consistent and friendly.
For more context, please see the discussion in the forum, as well as the pull request that updated the exercise in the problem-specifications repository:
If you approve this pull request, I will eventually merge it. However, if you are happy with this change please merge the pull request, as it will get the changes into the hands of the students much more quickly.
If this pull request contradicts the exercise on your track, please add a review with request changes. This will block the pull request from getting merged.
Otherwise, as discussed in the forum post linked to above, we aim to take an optimistic merging approach.
If you wish to suggest tweaks to these changes, please open a pull request to the exercism/problem-specifications repository to discuss, so that everyone who has an interest in the shared exercise descriptions can participate.