[UPHPU] Coding Correctness

[Daniel C.]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Justin Giboney <jgiboney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I went to a job interview last Thursday in which I felt I did well except
> for one question that he asked me. He asked me to create a PHP function that
> takes an input and outputs even if a number is even and odd if a number is
> odd.* Below are the function that I wrote in the interview, and the function
> that I would have liked to have written in the interview. Now here are some
> questions for you:
> 1) is there a big difference in the two functions?
> 2) if you could grade these on completeness, how would you score them?
> 3) what would be your perfect answer?

I think that Antoine de Saint-Exupery said it best:

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing
left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Your first function was better.