From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T23:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Why, oh, why, little regexp?

On Oct 31, 7:17 am, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Brian Adkins <lojicdot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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}
>
> Except under the upcoming revision (1.9) of the (Ruby) Rules of Golf,
> the R(uby)&A(ncient) has outlawed that usage, and instituted the
> penalty that ?d will no longer be 100, but "d".

Well, then the least they can do is add Integer#to as an alias for
Integer#upto so we can have a net loss of 1 character in the above
code :)