From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-07T22:46:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Code Cleaning (#26)

On Apr 7, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On Apr 7, 2005, at 6:54 AM, Ruby Quiz wrote:
>> No takers for this idea, eh?  We seem to like uglying up code better 
>> than
>> cleaning it!  Well, I'm a firm believer in eating my own dog food, 
>> so...
>
> Thanks very much for this summary. I didn't participate in the quiz, 
> but I did learn a LOT just reading this summary. Both from a code 
> point of view as well as insight into a particular way of tackling 
> this type of problem.
>
> Even if nobody posted a solution (even if nobody tried to clean up the 
> code but you), I'd still say this quiz was a success from the summary 
> alone :)

Thanks Gavin.  That's always been my number one goal for Ruby Quiz:  To 
provide a useful resource for the community.

For what it's worth, I do think code cleaning is a valuable exercise.  
I enjoyed solving this quiz and learned a few tricks myself.  If and 
when the IORCC teams gets around to hosting the opposite contest, I 
strongly encourage everyone to give it a shot.

James Edward Gray II