From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T04:01:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ SOLUTION] Euchre Hands (#55)

On Nov 20, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Robin Stocker wrote:

> Hi
>
> This one seemed pretty easy, so I gave it a try.

Just FYI, this solution seems to have trouble with certain inputs:

Neo:~/Documents/Ruby/Ruby Quiz$ ruby solutions/euchre_hand.rb >  
test_hand.txt
Neo:~/Documents/Ruby/Ruby Quiz$ ruby solutions/Robin\ Stocker/ 
euchre_hands.rb test_hand.txt
solutions/Robin Stocker/euchre_hands.rb:58:in `-': nil can't be  
coerced into Fixnum (TypeError)
         from solutions/Robin Stocker/euchre_hands.rb:58:in `<=>'
         from solutions/Robin Stocker/euchre_hands.rb:27:in `sort'
         from solutions/Robin Stocker/euchre_hands.rb:27:in `sort!'
         from solutions/Robin Stocker/euchre_hands.rb:80
Neo:~/Documents/Ruby/Ruby Quiz$ cat test_hand.txt
hearts
9s
9d
Kd
Ah
Qd

That's really not meant as a complaint.  I appreciate you sharing  
your solution.  It works more often than not and always seems to  
produce correct answers when it does.  I just thought you might like  
to know.

James Edward Gray II