From: Roy Sutton <roys@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T12:17:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Golfing a signature.

Dave Burt wrote:
> I've taken it down by 15 (to 347 not including newlines) trivially:
> * -7: inline values of L and s
> * -3: add a var, N, which is nil, and replace all () with u
> * -3: remove redundant ,() from initialization sequence (a,b,c=1,2; c 
> #=> nil)
> * -2: replace " " with f on line 2
> * 0: uppercase constants O and F
>
> O,F,N,c="#"," 
> ";b=([N]*20).map{(0..20).map{(rand<0.3)?O:F}};$><<"\e[2J";until
> c==b;$><<"\e[H"<<b.map{|x|x*F}*"\n";c=b.map{|z|z.dup};b.each_index{|i|b[i].each_index{ 
>
> |e|n=(q,z=-1..1,[];q.map{|x|q.map{|y|z<<[x,y]}};(z-=[[0,0]]).map{|x|c[i+x[0]][e+x[1]]rescue 
>
> N}-[F,N]).size;(b[i][e]==O)?(n>3||n<2)?b[i][e]=F:N:(n==3)?b[i][e]=O:N}};sleep 
>
> 0.2;end
>
This doesn't work with my Ruby one-click 1.8.2:

SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):1: syntax error
O,F,N,c="#"," 
";b=([N]*20).map{(0..20).map{(rand<0.3)?O:F}};$><<"\e[2J";until
                                                        ^
(irb):4: syntax error
N}-[F,N]).size;(b[i][e]==O)?(n>3||n<2)?b[i][e]=F:N:(n==3)?b[i][e]=O:N}};sleep
                                                 ^
(irb):4: syntax error
N}-[F,N]).size;(b[i][e]==O)?(n>3||n<2)?b[i][e]=F:N:(n==3)?b[i][e]=O:N}};sleep
                                                                    ^
        from (irb):5