From: Jesse Merriman <jesse.d.merriman@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T09:20:08+09:00
Subject: [SOLUTION][QUIZ] Hello, world? (#158)

Here's 6 little solutions (pastied http://pastie.caboo.se/160330 too). The 
last two just print the file name, so they'll have to be in a "Hello, world!" 
file (or as close as your OS supports).

## attempt 1

def print_caller
  print caller.first.match(/`(.*)'$/)[1]
end

def H; print_caller; end
def e; print_caller; end
def l; print_caller; end
def o; print_caller; end
def comma; print ','; end
def space; print ' '; end
def w; print_caller; end
def r; print_caller; end
def d!; print_caller; end
def newline; print "\n"; end

H(); e; l; l; o; comma; space; w; o; r; l; d!; newline

## attempt 2

class Hello
  def self.printer s; define_method(s) { print s; self }; end
  %w{H e l o w r d!}.each { |s| printer(s) }
end

Hello.new.H.e.l.l.o.w.o.r.l.d!

## attempt 3

class Hello
  def method_missing m; print m; self; end
end

Hello.new.H.e.l.l.o.send(', ').w.o.r.l.d!.send("\n")

## attempt 4, quine-ish

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'enumerator'

lines = File.readlines(__FILE__)
[20,  0,
  0, 11,
  4,  0,
  4,  0,
  2, 17,
  5,  3,
  0, 14,
 18, 28,
  2, 17,
  0,  5,
  4,  0,
  4, 16,
  0,  1,
  1,  0].each_slice(2) { |row, col| print lines[row][col..col] }

Hash

## attempt 5

# Must be in a file called "Hello, world!"
begin
  raise :foo
rescue StandardError => se
  puts se.backtrace.first.match(/([^\/\\:]+):/)[1]
end

## attempt 6

# Must be in a file called "Hello, world!"
puts __FILE__