From: Paul Duncan <pabs@...>
Date: 2004-09-25T04:47:07+09:00
Subject: [OT] Golfing (was Re: openssl examples and docs)

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* Jamis Buck (jgb3@email.byu.edu) wrote:
> Paul Duncan wrote:
> >* Jamis Buck (jgb3@email.byu.edu) wrote:
>=20
> >>"I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."
> >
> >Shouldn't that be "until I get to 7"?
> >
>=20
> Depends on how you are understanding "until". :) Pseudocode:
>=20
>   i =3D 0
>   until i =3D=3D 8
>     puts "%o" % i
>     i +=3D 1
>   end
>   puts "%d" % i

I see an opportunity for golfing!

  puts (0..8).map { |i| (i < 8 ? '%o' : '%d') % i }

> It's probably time to change my sig, anyway. I've been getting too many=
=20
> raised eyebrows from it. :) It was meant humorously.

I think it's funny :D.

> --=20
> Jamis Buck
> jgb3@email.byu.edu
> http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis
>=20
> "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."

--=20
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