From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T01:19:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Word Chains (#44)

On Aug 28, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On Aug 28, 2005, at 7:31 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>>     warn "Loading dictionary..." if $DEBUG
>>     WordChain.load_words(dictionary_file, start)
>>     warn "Building chain..." if $DEBUG
>>     puts WordChain.new(start, finish)
>>
>
> What's the benefit to using #warn rather than #puts here? stderr  
> versus stdout?

I can redirect them separately.  For example, I can throw the chain  
into a file, but still see the progress messages:

$ ruby -d word_chain.rb lead gold > chain.txt
Loading dictionary...
Building chain...
$ cat chain.txt
lead
load
goad
gold

Hope that makes sense.

James Edward Gray II