From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T07:39:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Gennady wrote:

> >
> > 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!"
> >
>
> A small refactoring ;-) --
>
> 99.downto 1 do |x|
>   puts "#{x} #{@b||='bottles of beer'} #{@w||='on the wall'}",
>   "   #{x} #{@b}!",
>   "Take one down, pass it around," end
> puts  "No more #{@b} #{@w}!"
>

Well, the idea is that any reader can understand the code, thus
demonstrating the readability of Ruby.  I can't figure out what your code
does, so I doubt a non-rubyist would.

How about?:

99.downto 1 do |x|
   puts <<EOH
       	#{x} bottles of beer on the wall.
	#{x} bottles of beer.
	Take one down, pass it around.
   EOH
end

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137