From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T12:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting to 100 (#119)

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:18:16 +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On 4/8/07, Marcel Ward <wardies@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/04/07, Carl Porth <badcarl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > After going back and reading the current solutions, I like Ken
>> > Bloom's each_partition method.  It's much cleaner than my
>> > combinations method.
>>
>> I agree, very clean and efficient.  The three lines that put it all
>> together using #zip are what makes this work for me:
>>
>> Digits.each_partition(Operators.length+1) do |digitspart|
>>   OperatorPerms.each do |operatorsperm|
>>      expression=digitspart.zip(operatorsperm).flatten.join
>> ...
>>
>> I think I would be feeling very happy if I'd submitted this solution :)
> 
> May I have the temerity to point out that I posted basically the same
> solution, which I posted two hours before Ken's.

I typically compose my solution on Friday afternoon, and sit on it for 
two days before posting to ruby-talk. When I post on Sunday, I do so 
before reading any other solutions out there. After posting, I browse the 
solutions, marvel at the clever ones, and usually notice that a bunch of 
people have come up with the same idiomatic solution as me, thereby 
suggesting that:
1) those people are also interested in clear idiomatic code
2) I'm unlikely to be the one summarized.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/