From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-12-19T01:27:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Chess960 (#106)

On Dec 18, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> From: Dave Burt [mailto:dave@burt.id.au]
>>     <<-END
>>     a b c d e f g h
>>   +-----------------+
>> 8 | #{ top_row    } | 8
>> 7 | p p p p p p p p | 7
>> 6 |                 | 6
>> 5 |                 | 5
>> 4 |                 | 4
>> 3 |                 | 3
>> 2 | P P P P P P P P | 2
>> 1 | #{ bottom_row } | 1
>>   +-----------------+
>>     a b c d e f g h
>>       END
>
> Just gotta say, that's pretty brain-dead tricky. To produce the same
> output, I'm sure I would have some a bunch of mapping and joining and
> iterating and thought I was tricky when I wrote "P "*8.
>
> I particularly like how you've used extra whitespace inside the
> interpolation block to preserve the monospace markup. Well done! :)

Yeah, I thought that was darn clever as well.

James Edward Gray II