Comment on Radiation-hardened Quine (2014)parentComments−dEnigma3ySo by "character mutation" you mean the deletion of characters? Because to my ears that term still sounds like bit flips, i.e. changing characters.−jonahx3yhttps://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/radiatio...−tedunangst3yThis tag is for challenges which require answers to still work when a random edit to the source code is made.What if my random edit is to add a character?−jonahx3yPossible -- depends on the rules of the specific challenge. Most of the time it's edits, deletes, or some combination. Sometimes the score depends on how many edits your code can withstand.
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So by "character mutation" you mean the deletion of characters? Because to my ears that term still sounds like bit flips, i.e. changing characters.
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/radiatio...
What if my random edit is to add a character?
Possible -- depends on the rules of the specific challenge. Most of the time it's edits, deletes, or some combination. Sometimes the score depends on how many edits your code can withstand.