From: Kevin Olbrich <devlists-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T08:59:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Who likes Sudoku?


On Sunday, July 16, 2006, at 8:03 AM,  wrote:
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>Hi --
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>On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
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>> 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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FYI:

http://markbyers.com/moinmoin/moin.cgi/ShortestSudokuSolver

_Kevin
www.sciwerks.com

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