From: John Carter Date: 2007-02-11T05:57:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Your favorite bit of ruby code? On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Luciano Ramalho wrote: > That's a very nice little demo of Ruby's charm, John. I truly wish I could claim it was Mine.... But alack, it is shamelessly copied off a post here on Ruby talk a year or two back... In my defense I can say at least I truly listened and remembered when the master spoke... even if I forgot to remember the Masters name. :-) >> # 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 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand