From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T08:09:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

> >
> > 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.
>

You can't figure it out, yes, but you feel there's something in it (beer?
;-) ), you copy-and-paste the code into the ruby (installing one possibly)
and, here we go, you become a Rubyist ;-). Dull print-outs will not attract
anybody, however I like the subject.

Having said that, Rich Kilmer's signature is the best I've seen so far. I
hope using it here as an example is not a copyright violation ;-):

    trap("SIGINT") { raise [104, 101, 108, 108].pack("cccc") }

Gennady.