From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-16T08:03:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Who likes Sudoku?

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Hi --

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

> Marcin Miel=C5=BCy=C5=84ski wrote:
>> all do..end to {..}
>> get rid of new lines ;)
>
> Personally, I'd much rather have more do..end and more lines. Terseness=
=20
> cannot be measured in mere character counts.

Definitely, but this is explicitly a round of code "golf", i.e.,
trying to get the code to work with the fewest "strokes" (keystrokes).
No one (I hope :-) would claim that golf code has a nice style.  I
like these things simply because I tend to learn interesting things
from them; like any exercise, it forces attention onto a subset of
available faculties.


David

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