From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-03-24T15:50:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13165] Re: Amusing contrast

Kevin Smith <sent@qualitycode.com> writes:

> >FWIW, I agree that's an ugly piece of code. So, here's a challenge for
> >anyone who wants to try it. Re-express this code in 12 or fewer lines
> >of Ruby. Make it look 'nice'. Make it more readable. Do it in
> >different styles. And post the results here.
> 
> 1. Make it longer than 12 lines. Well, that's not 
> a hard requirement, but I sure can't think of any reason to limit it
> to 12 lines! Are we targeting this to run inside a toaster in less
> than 16K of RAM?

No, but clarity and conciseness are not competing goals. I
deliberately wanted to see examples that were of comparable length to
the original.

No takers?


Dave