From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-04-27T10:51:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby misfeature? => CONTEST: solve the following problem


In article <20030426221505.GA7411@student.ei.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Mauricio Fern�ndez  <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>What's the output of the following script?
>Points awarded only if you don't run it ;)
>
>
>#raise "Gave up already?"
>
>def with(*objs, &block)
>	objs.each { |o| o.instance_eval(&block) }
>end
>
>a = % 	 
>
>
>b = %	 	
>
>
>c = % 
> 
>
>d = %
> 
>
>with a,b,c,d do
>	case self
>	when " "; puts "foo"
>	when "\t"; puts "bar"
>	when "\n"; puts "baz"
>	end
>end
>
>
>This feature has some serious potential for abuse! Good enough for an
>almost indecipherable obfuscated Ruby program...
>
>We shall now see who's got the best MUA :-)


OK, I'll admit to cheating by running this script...

I didn't see it print anything.

Phil