From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-07-30T06:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: deaf grandma.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:06 PM, houston barnett-gearhart
<americanpragmatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> (http://pastie.org/243587).
>
> I'd say it's about 99% complete. Although I do need the following, as
> mentioned above:
>
> • uniform indentation;

This is something a good editor should do for you. If you let us know
what platform you are on, people can recommend their favourite editors
and IDEs :)  I use gvim myself; below is an example of how it
autoindents your code:

http://pastie.org/243603

A heavyweight but very nicely polished option is netbeans with ruby
support: http://wiki.netbeans.org/Ruby

> • shortened print statements;

Not sure what you mean by that. If you have a lot of text to print, it
needs to be included, after all :) There are things you could do to
compact the code but they add little value at this stage - I'd say go
ahead and do it the straightforward way as you have here.

> • one less loop

There's a problem with your code as written  - note that once you've
said "bye" you can never say anything else - it sticks in the loop
till it counts three 'byes' in a row. Whereas what you want is to exit
the whole loop if you see three byes in a row, otherwise just carry on
as normal. What you *should* do is this -

if the user has yelled, so that granny hears what he says, do an
additional check for his having said "bye".
---- If that is true, then increase the bye count.
-------- If the bye count is 3, exit the loop
---- If that is false, reset the bye count to zero and carry on with
the rest of the code

Hope that helps!

martin