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Reminds me of an early Uni project where we had to operate on data in an array of 5 elements, but because "I didn't teach it to everyone yet" we couldn't use loops. It was going to be a tedious amount of copy-paste.
I think I got around it by making a function called "not_loop" that applied a functor argument to each element of the array in serial. Professor forgot to ban that.
That is aggravating. "I didn't teach the class the proper way to do this task, so you have to use the tedious way." What is the logic behind that other than wasting everyone's time?
Teaching someone the wrong way to do something frequently makes the right way make way more sense. Someone who just copy/pasted 99 near identical if statements understands on a fundamental level when, why, and where you use a for loop much more than someone who just read in the textbook "a for loop is used to iterate elements in a collection".
And if I know the right way of doing it I already understand why it's better because I want to use it in this situation. Making the students who already understand the lesson do it the wrong way is just a waste of their time.