From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2007-11-22T23:03:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How to give depth to arrays?

On Nov 22, 2007 10:28 AM, Chris Morales <primo.tertio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I made it kinda works, clunky and ugly though...
>
>
> class Array
>   def max
>     max = 0;
>     self.each{ |i| max = i>max ? i : max }
>     max
>   end
>   def min
>     min = 9999;
>     self.each{ |i| min = i<min ? i : min }
>     min
>   end
>   def depthen
>     base_depth = self.min
>     range = [0,0]
>     in_flag, out_flag = false, false
>     self.each_index{ |i|
>       if self[i]>base_depth && !in_flag
>         in_flag = true;
>         range[0] = i
>       end
>       if self[i] <= base_depth && !out_flag
>         out_flag = true
>         range[1] = i-1
>       end
>     }
>     to_insert = self.slice!(eval(range.join('..')))
>     to_insert.depthen if to_insert.max>to_insert.min
>     self.insert( range[0], to_insert )
>   end
> end
>
> p [2,3,3,5,4,4].depthen => [2,[3,3,[[5],4,4]]]
>
> I will be really thankful if anybody could help me improve this monster
> with nice ruby tricks.

With your code:

[2,3,5,3].depthen # => [2, [3, [[5], 3]]]

Shouldn't this be:

[2, [3, [[5]], 3]]

?

I'm trying to think of an elegant solution, but I'm kind of slow today...

Jesus.