From: Paul Novak <novakps@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T23:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ.SOLUTION] Dice Roller (#61) We don't need no steenking leexer/parsers

No, the mis-understanding is all mine.  You are right, otherwise it
will include an extra roll.  It should be:
(1..self).to_a.inject(0){|x,y| x + rand(sides)}+self

Further proof of the value of good unit tests. (Since (1..1).to_a
returns a single-member array, you need to provide inject with an
initial value to make it work.)

Regards,

Paul.


On 1/9/06, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@anthropohedron.net> wrote:

> }     # 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.