From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T00:41:41+09:00
Subject: Ruby haiku (senryu?)

Rudolf Polzer <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@durchnull.ath.cx> wrote:
 
> OK, now define what a syllable is. A token (including |, ; and others)? A
> keyword or identifier? A keyword or identifier's syllable? Or even a
> token's syllable: ; = se-mi-co-lon [probably not, I don't know English
> hyphenation]? se-mi-ko-ro-n [oops, virtually no ; allowed in the first
> or third line *g*]?

Okay, here's a go at it, trying to keep line breaks as clean as possible

# steps through an array
# yielding only elements
# with non-nil values

class Array
  def filled
    each do |x|       # "each do x"
      next unless x
      yield x  
    end  
  end
end  

Still flawed in that the natural idiom is "yield x if x" but it's a
start. This is fun!

martin