From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-01-16T06:19:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:37:40 GMT, Martin DeMello
<martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Chad Fowler <chadfowler@chadfowler.com> wrote:


>Little (72x4) code snippets that were sufficiently eye-catching would be
>a nice positive way to do it. Not along the lines of perl's JAPHs, more
>like code whose meaning is obvious when you read it, and which is cool
>in a "wow - Ruby lets you do it that simply/elegantly/enjoyably?!" sense.
>(The Haskell quicksort is a perfect example of the sort of thing I have
>in mind). 

ruby haiku ?

this could be wonderful :D


<snip/>

>"hello world".gsub(/\w*/) {|match| match.reverse} # => "olleh dlrow"

that's not so obvious :)


my favourite:
99.downto 1 do |x|
puts  	"#{x} bottles of beer on the wall",
	 "   #{x} bottles of beer!",
	 "Take one down, pass it around," end

puts  "No more bottles of beer on the wall!"