From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Date: 2009-10-21T09:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Deaf Grandma

Michael W. Ryder wrote:
> 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.

I missed the part about removing the multiple if's in the oringal post.

#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!"
     else
      puts "NO! NOT SINCE " + (1930+rand(21)).to_s + "!"
    end
end
puts "GOOD BYE, SONNY!"