From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T13:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Why, oh, why, little regexp?

On Oct 30, 11:58 pm, Phrogz <phr...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 9:30 pm, Daniel Waite <rabbitb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's clever use of ?a, which I recognize but have never seen anyone
> > use before. Thanks for the example!
>
> My current favorite use for the ?x syntax is converting single-
> character strings representing digits into their integer form:

Yeah, so you can squeeze Ruby code into small places :)

1.upto(?d){|i|i%3<1&&x=:Fizz;puts i%5<1?"#{x}Buzz":x||i}