From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2000-12-21T00:42:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7770] Re: Code sample for improvement

In message "[ruby-talk:7705] Code sample for improvement"
    on 00/12/20, Stephen White <steve@deaf.org> writes:
>Example run:
>
>  [steve@localhost steve]$ ./a 10000
>  2 hours 46 mins 40 secs 
>
>I was interested in how the new constructs available in Ruby, like
>closures and co-routines, could help clean up what really is pretty
>ghastly code.
>
>I've played around with a few other approaches, but nothing really
>seems to stand out as being a better way of doing things.

Can I send joke?  :-)

zsh> ruby -e '#!/usr/bin/env ruby

     require "date"

     ("%d years %d months %d days %s\n" %
      [ARGV[0].to_i.divmod 86400].map{|days,secs|
        [Date.new0(days+5373485), Time.at(secs).gmtime]
      }.map{|d,t| 
        [d.year-10000, d.month-1, d.mday-1, 
          "%d hours %d mins %d secs" % t.to_a.indices(2,1,0)]
      }.shift).display

' 0123456789012346789
3912189903 years 10 months 26 days 5 hours 39 mins 49 secs
zsh> 

-- Gotoken