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moodleou / moodle-qtype_pmatch

Pattern-match question type for Moodle
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configurable number of words warning #33

Open Canx opened 7 years ago

Canx commented 7 years ago

Currently there is a 20 word warning that can be enabled and helps avoiding the "copy&paste" problem. It would be more flexible to have an option to change that word number depending on the the answer length.

timhunt commented 7 years ago

The pmatch algorithm almost certainly O(2^n) or worse, so, as well as existing for very good pedagogic reasons, the hard answer lengh limit also help stop the server getting overloaded by complex matches. So, we are reluctant to make this configurable. Really, the question type is no designed to handle long answers.

Canx commented 7 years ago

Ok, I understand. Thanks for explaining!