From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-09-25T23:16:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Roulette & rand

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@trevoke.net> wrote:
> Symbols are a good habit to get into because they always represent a
> unique object, the symbol, while strings always create a new object.
> irb(main):009:0> 0.object_id
> => 1
> irb(main):010:0> 0.object_id
> => 1
> irb(main):011:0> "0".object_id
> => 21396750
> irb(main):012:0> "0".object_id
> => 21393440
>
> If we're gonna talk about code simplification..
>
> colors = { 0 => :green }
> (1..36).each { |num| colors[num] = (num % 2 == 0) ? :black : :red }
>
> But I'm also lazy, and this is actually slower than the way you guys
> generate your hash...

And also different, as the red and black numbers aren't the odd and
even numbers.

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