From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T06:36:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Your favorite bit of ruby code?

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Carl Lerche wrote:

>
> I'm just curious what your favorite bit of ruby code is? Do you have
> any small bits, methods, classes, or anything else, that just make you
> say "Wow, that is sweet!"

# Ruby is Objects all the way down and open for extension...

class Integer
   def factorial
     return 1 if self <= 1
     self * (self-1).factorial
   end
end

6.factorial
720




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