From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-12-05T09:05:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0

Hi --

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Florian Gross wrote:

> William James wrote:
> 
> > Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> wrote
> > 
> >>32.times{|y|print" "*(31-y);(y+1).times{|x|print" #{~y&x==0?"A":"."}"};puts}
> > 
> > Excellent signature, Brian.  Here's a shortened version:
> > 
> >   32.times{|y|print" "*(31-y);(y+1).times{|x|print~y&x>0?" .":" A"};puts}
> 
> Yet shorter:
> 
>      32.times{|y|print" "*(31-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?" .":" A"},$/}

Does this count as shorter?

  ruby -le'32.times{|y|print" "*(31-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?" .":" A"}}'

:-)


David

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