From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-06-09T05:52:58+09:00
Subject: Re: cast iron Christmas tree stand

Happy Whitsun,

* Shashank Date; 2003-06-08, 18:18 UTC:
> I know Ruby is powerful, but I did not know you could produce "cast
> iron Christmas tree stand"s with it.

If it can produce Xmas trees so it should be able to create a stand
as well:

height = 20
size = height * 3 / 4
tree = []
size.times {|i| tree.push(' '*(size-i) + '/'*i + '\\'*i) }
(height-size).times {|i| tree.push ' ' * (size-2) + '|  |'}
puts tree

1:3 seems to be a nice ratio for Xmas trees.

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt