From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-12T04:00:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Compact if statement for Codegolf

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 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

touche techer, touche.

-a
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