From: David Alan Black Date: 2000-12-31T03:36:36+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:8365] Re: speedup of anagram finder On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Ernest Ellingson wrote: > I was responding to Christof Ripple comment that ... > > >> word.each_byte {|s| key *= asc2prime[s]} > > >isn't something like > ... > >much simpler (and faster)? > > cough cough "Ruby Way" cough cough...:) > > I don't know how one would use ... to accomplish what the block > accomplishes. I received a reply that used the range operators but I still > don't have a clue about ... and the block you use in your code. I believe the "..." was intended only to mark an elision from the previous post. Operator overload. See [ruby-talk:8315]. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav