From: "studlee2@..." <studlee2@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T01:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Who likes Sudoku?

I'm not really sure about the whole "GOLF" vs. "golf".  We'll say
'GOLF'.downcase and call it even.  I think 'golf' is the right way to
refer to squeezing code.

_Steve


dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, studlee2@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Here is the smallest Ruby Sudoku solver I could come up with.  I've
> > seen a bunch that are really big, but this is the most simplistic.  I'd
> > like to shrink it a bit more, but it works well for now.  Things like
> > reading in the ARGV line as Integers could remove all the ".to_i" tags.
> > Another line could be removed if the hash is declared within the loop
> > instead of the top of the subroutine.  Is there are way to loop through
> > numbers 1..9 using the 10.times notation so I don't have to skip '0' --
> > it'd be nice to remove that line too?  Can we GOLF this anymore?  I'm
>
> Has GOLF become a "backronym"?  I thought it was just "golf", but I
> keep seeing it in uppercase.
>
> > going to keep refining it, so I'll post any updates later on.  This was
> > a fun problem - Ruby Rocks!
>
> Anyway -- sure you can reduce it a bit.  Change $puzzle to $p, to
> start with, and get rid of a bunch of spaces :-)  (I haven't looked at
> the logic yet so my suggestions are pretty cosmetic.)
>
>
> David
>
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