From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2008-03-27T04:08:24+09:00
Subject: Re: golf: tabs to bullets

On 3/25/08, ara howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 5:22 PM, David A. Black wrote:
> > I'm seeing it differently; I see Martin's like this:
> oh yeah - interesting.  the fix:
>
> cfp2:~ > cat a.rb
> DATA.read.gsub(%r/(?:\t\ ?)+/){|s|'  '*(n=s.count("\t")-1)+%w(* - o x)
> [n]+' '}.display
>
> __END__
> foo
>         bar
>                  baz
>                          hello
>                  world
>
>
(86 bytes of code)


Here's one that shaves 9 bytes of Ara's while adding 2 fixes to match
the original spec:
use modulo for a circular list of bullets, and take an input filename
from the command line, instead of imbedding it.

$><<$<.read.gsub(/(?:\t\ ?)+/){|s|'  '*(n=s.chop.size-1)+'*-ox'[n%4].chr+' '}

(77 bytes)