From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T16:58:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting to 100 (#119)

On 4/11/07, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Cheer up Ken;) http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz110.html

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


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