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Answer by Brad Larson for Flag on troll answer declined: are these answers really acceptable?

Actually, the full answer was this:

NSString * getRandomString(NSArray * names) {     return "RandomName"; // Joke}

Now instead of return "RandonName", generate a random number between 1 and [names count] and return that value.

That last sentence makes a lot of difference, because while the code snippet was a bit of a joke, I think they were trying to instruct the asker at the end without spoon-feeding them. Of course, that last sentence isn't really correct, but that makes it seem to me to not be an attempt at trolling.

They also left this comment:

Care to explain the downvote, the OP needed direction and i think this is a good hint.

which makes me believe that while this was not a good answer, it was not intended as a troll post.


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