From: Fritz Heinrichmeyer Date: 2001-08-29T21:41:26+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:20512] a more interesting ruby example fib.rb What about using this as ruby-Fibonacci-Example? It highlights rubys uniqe "all is a class" feature and is a little faster than the original fib.rb: # calculate Fibonacci(20) # for benchmark class Integer def fib if self<2 self else (self-2).fib + (self-1).fib end end end print(20.fib, "\n"); -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh