From: "Steve K." <stevenkinney@...>
Date: 2011-05-04T11:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Deaf Grandma

I was doing stupid things with arrays and all sorts of dumb crap until I 
came here and read this thread. Super good work. I wanted my Ruby script 
to work with the three goodbyes extension exercise mentioned above. 
Also—I like double quotes and #{} to get things done. In my neophyte 
opinion, it's cleaner and less characters.

puts "TALK TO ME! SO LONELY!\n\n"
bye = 0
while bye < 3
  response = gets.chomp
  if response == "BYE"
    puts "STAY AWHILE!?!"
    bye = (bye+1)
  elsif response == response.upcase
    puts "NO! NOT SINCE #{1910+rand(41)}!"
    bye = 0
  else
    puts "Huh?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
    bye = 0
  end
end

If you make it a single string—it's 263 if you format it to one line and 
strip my OCD new-line characters. It resets "bye" back down to zero if 
it's not said three times straight.

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