From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T03:16:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Compact if statement for Codegolf

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 
>> Hi --
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Drew Olson wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working on my codegolfing skills and was wondering, what is the
>>> shortest possible way to write the following in ruby:
>>>
>>> if a==0
>>>   1
>>> else
>>>   2
>>> end
>>
>> The smallest I can think of is:
>>
>>  a==0?1:2
>>
> 
> if a will only have values 0 or 1 you could use
> 
>   2**a

In that case:

a+1

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