Must-read intro: <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tuto...
# codeforcesv
vadzim
05/25/2019, 2:05 PMMust-read intro: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/competitive-programming.html
Here is a bunch of helper input reading functions that extend those examples for reading different types, lists and arrays, etc: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41283393/reading-console-input-in-kotlin
Hope that in some future Kotlin release stdlib would comprise something similar in addition to sole readLine().
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elizarov
05/25/2019, 2:14 PMThey are hardly needed outside of competitive programming, so there is not much reason to pollute stdlib with them.
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vadzim
05/25/2019, 2:29 PMThis consern in understandable. But teaching Kotlin as first language would greatly benefit from them too. I remember a previously discussed idea to offload them into separate but still official opt-in library like kotlinx. That could be easily enabled on all ejudges, etc.
Kotlin is so good in revealing from boilerplate in other areas that limited input parsing support seems a bit frustrating. )
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vadzim
05/25/2019, 2:48 PMEven a single additional fast fun readToken(delim: String = " "): String would greatly improve situation.
It's predictable that competitive programming would shift to Kotlin Native where slow Scanner is not available at all.
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