From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2007-11-12T12:23:46+09:00
Subject: Re: comp.lang.fortran challenge

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:20:32PM +0900, Aaron Patterson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:30:06AM +0900, Bil Kleb wrote:
> > Having Ruby fun with the comp.lang.fortran folks:
> > 
> >  http://tinyurl.com/38o8ex
> >  http://tinyurl.com/2pw22q
> > 
> > Please riff a better Ruby answer...
> 
> I'm confused as to why the data needs to be retained in memory.....  But
> here is a little something I put together.  It does maintain the
> datastructures in memory before calculating the results.
> 
>   require 'open-uri'
>   
>   class PhilCollins
>     attr_writer :time
>     alias :time :time=
>   
>     def initialize(io)
>       @uv_by_t = Hash.new { |h,t| h[t] = Hash.new { |n,a| n[a] = [] } }
>       @time = 10

Oops.  @time should be nil, but that shouldn't change the output....

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