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There is a (slight, but important) difference between the syntactic meaning, and the semantic meaning.

you are correct that reversing a string gives back irrelevant things. (and you don't need to go that far: what does a reversed word mean?) however, in the sense of a list of characters, the content is irrelevant.




Maybe the interview question should be 'How is the question 'reverse this string' a bad interview question'


If it's an interview for a position that's involving interviewing people, then for sure.


So, developer.




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