From: Art Taylor <reeses@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T08:18:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

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I don't know if sending buggy code is the best way to 
proselytise the language, readable or not. :-)

-a.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
> Sent: Wed Jan 15 17:39:42 EST 2003
> To: [ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>]
> Cc: []
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 

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