From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T02:57:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbolify (#169)

On Jul 11, 10:41 am, Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:12 PM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Matthew Moss wrote:
>
> >> That is, the following test code should raise no exceptions:
>
> >>   1000.times do |i|
> >>     s = symbolify(i)
> >>     raise "Not a string!"  unless s.is_a? String
> >>     raise "Invalid chars!" unless s.delete("?*()-").empty?
>
> >>     x = eval(s)
> >>     raise "Decode failed!" unless i == x
> >>   end
>
> > i've got one line - tests pass.
>
> Me too. My method body is one line, 25 characters. Did you manage to
> stretch yours to 42? :)
>
> -A

And it works for negative integers too?

Chris