From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T16:47:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby haiku (senryu?)


"Martin DeMello" <martindemello@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:7IaWa.26369$LD6.211975@news0.telusplanet.net...
> 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

"false" is excluded, too.

> 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!

Robert