From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T03:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbolify (#169)

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hmm... that wasn't in the tests. That took 46 characters (so far) for
my golfed solution.

-A