From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-08-21T06:11:13+09:00
Subject: Re: the power of ruby

Yours is rather succinct, but I find that you can often capitalize
on return values of methods to shorten.  Shorten, right?  You're
looking for shorter?

Here's one:

  WIDTH = 78
  def do_dot( i ) 
    puts( ( " " * i ) + "*" )
  end
  loop {
    WIDTH.times { |i| do_dot(i) }.downto(0) { |i| do_dot(i) }
  }

Check ya later.

_why
       
AW (sturmpanzer@metacrawler.com) wrote:
> 
> Here is my unimaginitive attempt.
> 
> [code]==============================================
> WIDTH=78;
> def do_dot(i)
>        i.times{print " "}
>        puts "*";
> end
> loop{
>        0.upto(WIDTH-1){|i|
>                do_dot(i);
>        }
>        WIDTH.downto(1){|i|
>                do_dot(i);
>        }       
> }
> [/code]=============================================