From: Vicente Bosch Campos <vbosch@...>
Date: 2010-11-10T16:08:07+09:00
Subject: Re: help with code, new to programming

Much better with a begin .. end while!! I always forget about those as I don't use them much. Thanks Scott

On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Scott Gonyea wrote:

> Correction.  When I Apple-R'd textmate went into a loop, so I did the (again = gets) and then I realized textmates Run command sucks (and/or my expectations are too high).
> 
> Here's a shorter way to write things, without going Perl on it.
> 
> 
> print 'I am going to test if you are psychic, press enter to continue...'
> gets
> 
> begin
>  print "I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10, can you guess what it is?\n : "
>  guess = gets.to_i
>  puts  "As to the question of you being psychic, the answer is: #{guess}"
>  print 'Play again? [Y/n]: '
> end while(gets !~ /^n/i)
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Vicente Bosch Campos wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Steve,
>> 
>> The main loop of the game would be as follows:
>> 
>> print 'I am going to test if you are psychic, press enter to
>> continue...'
>> initialise = gets
>> reply='yes'
>> 
>> while reply=='yes'
>> 	matches = ask 'I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10, can you guess what it is?'
>> 	puts 'As to the question of you being psychic the answer is:'
>> 	puts matches
>> 	puts 'Would you like to play again? (please answer yes or no'
>> 	reply = gets.chomp
>> end
>> 
>> puts 'Goodbye and farewell...'
>> 
>> Probably there is a more idiomatic way of doing it and also you should check better for the inputed value from the user ( something to investigate for you in the future).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> V.
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Steve Rees wrote:
>> 
>>> print 'I am going to test if you are psychic, press enter to
>>> continue...'
>>> initialise = gets
>>> matches = ask 'I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10, can you guess
>>> what it is?'
>>> puts 'As to the question of you being psychic the answer is:'
>>> puts matches
>>> puts 'Would you like to play again? (please answer yes or no'
>>> reply = gets.chomp
>>> if reply == 'yes'
>>> matches = ask 'I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10, can you guess
>>> what it is?'
>>> else
>>> puts 'Goodbye and farewell...'
>>> end
>> 
>> 
> 
>