From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T23:53:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Interesting Ruby anomaly

Anders K. Madsen wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:06:27 +0900
> Jani Monoses <jani@iv.ro> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>AbStruct
>>>HasTrucked
>>>MissTrucked
>>
>>grep -i struct /usr/share/dict/words
>>
> 
> 
> That wouldn't give you anything with "truck" and "abstruct"/"abstract"
> wouldn't turn up either...
> 
> 
>>beat this :)
> 
> 
> Why would I? I never thought this was a competition...
> 
> I'm very impressed that you can use grep and the case-insensitive switch
> to search in an ASCII-file, but I fail to see where the humour comes
> in... Sorry. :-\


I'm pretty sure that "beat this" was a facetious, not serious, challenge.

But, as this branch of the thread careens into total foolishness, I 
would award more game [0] points for names that manage to avoid any 
direct reference to the literal string 'struct', yet still convey some 
twisted spin on the original name.

James

[0] The game being, "Give Hal far more alternative names than he would 
ever want to even remotely consider."

Maybe Ruby could use a Facetious module, so that one could write code 
using :), :-O, and so on, and the interpreter would know to not *really* 
execute the line.  Just "sort of" execute it.

# But in the meantime ...

%w< :) :/ :} >.each { |grin| puts(grin) }