From: Matthew Moss <matthew.moss@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T04:50:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbolify (#169)

Shindo-san,
I think I understand the basic idea you were attempting to code, but
you might want to revise it; as it is written below, it doesn't quite
work.


On Jul 12, 11:43 pm, SHINDO Motoaki <motoak...@mac.com> wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -Ku
>
> #Oh, by the way... You may only use the characters `?`, `*`, `(`, `)`  
> and `-`.
> #s
> #Specifically, define a function `symbolify` that accepts an integer
> #and returns a string composed of only the five characters shown above.
> #The string, when evaluated, will equal the original number passed in.
>
> def init
>         str = ':?:*:(:):-'
>         5.times { |i|
>                 letters[i] = str[i]
>         }
> end #init
>
> def symb1(i)
>         s = ""
>         p = i / 5
> #       p = (i.abs) / 5
>         unless p < 1
>                 symb1(p)
>         end
>         q = i.mod(5)
>
>         s += letters(q)
> end
>
> def symbolify(i)
> letters = []
>         init
>
>         puts i
>         symb1(i)
> #       symb2(i)
> end
>
> puts symbolify(ARGV[1].to_i)
>