From: Park Heesob <phasis@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T11:20:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

Hi,

"Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0301151733000.1625-100000@runge.math.umd.edu...
> 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
>
How about submit it at http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/ ?

There are 6 Perl versions,
http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/p.html#Perl

but only 1 Ruby version.
http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/r.html#Ruby

Park Heesob