From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-11-27T20:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Most elegant way to do this?

On Nov 26, 6:17 pm, rbysam...@gmail.com 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!

def sum *x
  x.inject{|a,b| a+b}
end
def roll n
  sum( *(1..n).map{rand(6)+1} )
end