From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T17:49:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck images

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 02:52 am, Dave Burt wrote:
| "Eirikur Hallgrimsson" <eh@mad.scientist.com> wrote in message
| news:1102475987.9285.5.camel@sal...
|
| >I am having the worst time getting these cute little things to work.
| > Pasting into irb is almost working for me.  I think it's a problem
| > with line wrapping inside code which is pretty hard for me to read
| > to begin with.  Is there some way to cast these into a canonical form
| > that will survive their trip through email and cut and paste?
| >
| > Eirikur
| >
| > # Franks original Version: 186 Bytes
| > # Shortened and enhanced: 178 Bytes
|
| The problem is indeed line-wrapping. All the duck sigs posted to date have
| been one-liners. The lines probably broke on a single space. Check out the
| attachment to Florian's original duck sig post, duck.rb - that should
| arrive intact.
|
| Now, I've done some golfing myself - 145 characters (delete the newlines):
|
| i=1;loop{w=i&1==1?'v^':'^v';$><<"\e[2J\e[0;0H#{' '*10}_\n #{
| i&1==1?' '*7+'<':'Quack! >'}(*)____,\n#{' '*9}(` =~~/\n#{w*5
| }`---'#{w*4}";i+=sleep 1}
|
| If that doesn't work:
| http://www.dave.burt.id.au/ruby/duck_golf.rb
|
| 3 more characters, and it'll fit on 2 72-char lines. Who's teeing off next?

142

i=1;loop{w='v^v'[i%2,2];$><<"\e[2J\e[0;0H#{' '*10}_\n #{i&1==1?' 
'*7+'<':'Quack! >'}(*)____,\n#{' '*9}(`=~~/\n#{w*5}`---'#{w*4}\n";i+=sleep 1}

I had to add \n at the end to get the water to appear :(.

T.