From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-19T22:06:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18114] Re: 99 bottles of beer

grady@xcf.berkeley.edu (Steven Grady) writes:

> (I believe in Perl circles this is called Golf.  This is the first
> thread I've seen of Ruby Golf..)

Fore!

> 
> 174 bytes:
> 
> def b(n) "#{n>0?n: 'No more'} bottle#{n!=1?'s': ''} of beer";end
> 99.downto(1){|n|w=" on the wall";puts "#{b(n)}#{w}, #{b(n)}\nTake one down, pass
>  it around\n#{b(n-1)}#{w}."}

Nothing clever, just a bit of tuning..

171 characters:

  b=proc{|n|"#{n>0?n: 'No more'} bottle#{n!=1?'s': ''} of beer"}
  w=" on the wall"
  99.downto(1){|n|puts "#{b[n]}#{w}, #{b[n]}\nTake one down, pass it around\n#{b[n-1]}#{w}."}
                      


Dave