From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-26T04:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: w00t! Party for Gregory!

On 21.05.2009 21:18, Tim Pease wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:42 AM, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On May 20, 2009, Gregory Brown wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2009, Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com> wrote:
>>>>> So you have better designs compared to those who seek further conciseness in
>>>>> a language.  If only those folks of poor ability could design so well as
>>>>> you.
>>>> That's right.   I'm pretty awesome.   Maybe RubyTalk can throw a party
>>>> in honor of me!
>>>
>>> I say we do it.  We should all celebrate Greg's awesomeness.  Wherever you
>>> are, take 5 minutes to party wildly and think of Greg.
>>>
>> ➙ cat party.rb
>>
>> class Party
>>  @@styles = [
>>    'Party, Greg, Party!!',
>>    'Dance, Greg, Dance!!',
>>    'Woot!!!',
>>    'Wild Dancing Greg Party!',
>>    '--< Chunky Bacon >--'
>>  ]
>>
>>  def for_greg
>>    puts @@styles.at(rand(@@styles.length))
>>  end
>>
>>  def party( time )
>>    start = Time.now
>>    Thread.new {
>>      loop {
>>        self.for_greg
>>        break if Time.now-start >= time
>>      }
>>    }
>>  end
>> end
>>
>>
>> 300.times {
>>  unless fork
>>    Party.new.party(1)
>>  end
>> }
>>
>> Process.waitall
>>
>> puts %q(That's right. I'm pretty awesome. Maybe RubyTalk can throw a
>> party in honor of me!)
>>
>>
> 
> Hmmm ... I just created an infinitely spawning script! Need an exit!
> after the "Party.new.party(1)" line; otherwise each forked child will
> drop through back into the 300.times loop and start the process all
> over again.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> My efforts at humor are wrought with bugs. More coffee is needed.

And you are using class variables!  Bad boy!

	robert - still dancing


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