From: Sven Schott <sven.schott@...>
Date: 2009-11-03T18:00:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Hamurabi (#223)

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Cool. Caveat for the non-bleed users: ruby1.9 required (1.8.6 here).

I must admit, I didn't even try to understand certain design decisions. I
basically followed flow and then cleaned up the code a little later. I
believe the for loop was to play the system alert seven times (ASCII char
7). I think. Sound effects on a PDP-8 terminal. :)


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I did the hard-way too, but no so sure I regret :)
>
> In fact it was interesting how to transform jumps into methods.
>
> So here is my pastie:
> http://pastie.textmate.org/681199
>
> Still bugged, because I couldn't understand so much the part with planting
> seeds. (and why using the variable dead at that moment?)
>
> For the "for" loop at the end, what is it supposed to do? output
> 7.chr(bell)
> ?
>
> 2009/11/3 genericpenguin <sven.schott@gmail.com>
>
> > Well, here goes. I did it the bad way (no flowcharts or anything) and
> > it was pretty painful (meaning I regretted it later). I got it to the
> > point where it is semi-reasonable but it's not very um, Rubyish. I
> > ironed out all the showstopper bugs but I'm sure there's quite a few
> > more. In any case it works after a fashion (compared the output to a
> > running instance of http://www.calormen.com/applesoft/) and it doesn't
> > make my eyes bleed (no guarantees on yours).
> >
> > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1826667/hamurabi.rb
> >
> > I spent so much time on it that in the end I didn't clean up all the
> > puts'. Sorry!
> >
> >
> > On Nov 3, 11:50 am, James Edward Gray II <ja...@graysoftinc.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:37 PM, genericpenguin wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sorry I'm new to the list. Is it ok to post solutions at this point
> > > > (Nov 1 10:30am to now +48hrs)?
> > >
> > > It sure is.  Post away.
> > >
> > > And welcome to the list.
> > >
> > > James Edward Gray II
> >
> >
>

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