From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Date: 2009-10-21T09:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Deaf Grandma

Chris Mr. wrote:
> danielj wrote:
>> Thanks very much for all the help guys.
>>
>> Programmers seem to be a nice group!
> 
> I rewrote some of it like this:
> 
> #Grandma is deaf!
> 
> puts "Hey Sonny! It's your lovely Grandmother! How are you?"
> 
> response = gets.chomp
> bye = 0
> 
> while bye < 1
>    if response != response.upcase
>      puts "Huh?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
>    end
> 
>    if (response == response.upcase and response != "BYE")
>      puts "NO! NOT SINCE " + (1930+rand(21)).to_s + "!"
>    end
> 
>    if response == "BYE"
>      puts "GOOD BYE, SONNY!"
>    bye = (bye+1)
>    end
> 
> response = gets.chomp
> end
> 
> I'm a noob, but this seems cleaner to me. I know there is a way to write 
> it with out repeating the "if" statements three times but at least it 
> works:) The only other thing that bothers me is you have to press enter 
> at the end to return to the command prompt. If anyone has an example on 
> how to fix it that would be sweet.

How about:

#Grandma is deaf!

puts "Hey Sonny! It's your lovely Grandmother! How are you?"

while (response = gets.chomp) != "BYE"
    if response != response.upcase
      puts "Huh?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
    end

    if (response == response.upcase)
      puts "NO! NOT SINCE " + (1930+rand(21)).to_s + "!"
    end
  end
  puts "GOOD BYE, SONNY!"

This only uses one entry of response and no flags.