From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T21:49:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ.SOLUTION] Dice Roller (#61) We don't need no steenking leexer/parsers

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:57:20AM +0900, Paul Novak wrote:
[...]
} here is the Ruby:
} 
} #!/usr/bin/env ruby
} #
} # roll.rb
} #
} 
} # fix up Fixnum to override ** with our desired d behavior
} class Fixnum
}   def ** (sides)
}     # validation
}     if sides<1
}       raise "Invalid sides value:  '#{sides}', must be a positive Integer"
}     end
}     if self<1
}       raise "Invalid number of rolls:  '#{self}', must be a postitive Integer"
}     end
}     # roll the dice
}      (0..self).to_a.inject{|x,y| x + rand(sides)}+self

I think I may be misunderstanding something here. You use 0..self, when I
would think it would have to be either 0...self or 1..self to get the right
number of rolls. Am I off? In my solution I used 1..self in much the same
way.

}   end
} end
[...]

--Greg