From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2007-11-27T19:03:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Most elegant way to do this?

Hi,
unknown wrote:
> Are there any more elegant, concise, pithy, and more Rubyish ways of
> doing this?
> 
> def roll(number_of_dice)
>     sum = 0
>     number_of_dice.times do
>         sum += rand(5).next
>     end
>     sum
> end
> 
> Thanks in advance!

If you want the dice number, you should use rand(6).

How about this:

def roll(n)
  eval('+rand(6)+1'*n)
end

Regards,

Park Heesob
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