From: Luciano Ramalho <ramalho@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T15:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Your favorite bit of ruby code?

That's a very nice little demo of Ruby's charm, John.

Cheers!

Luciano

On 2/8/07, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> 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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