From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T12:40:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

sir Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu] wrote:

> 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

Would this be readable enough?

99.downto 1 do |x|
	puts <<-BEER 
		 #{x} bottle#{"s" if x>1} of beer on the wall.
		 #{x} bottle#{"s" if x>1} of beer!.
	 	 Take one down, pass it around.
		 BEER
end

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



The idea is to show some of Ruby's "#{}" flexibility...

Btw, I really hope the new indent feature of Nobu is approved. This sample
of mine has indents that are tooo far... If I bring the indents down, the
code does not look good in eye...

> Daniel Carrera

kind regards -botp