From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-05T00:37:07+09:00
Subject: Re: New to ruby--trouble with initializing arrays


"Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20031203195953.GA2595@jupp%gmx.de...
> Hi!
>
> * Robert Klemme; 2003-12-03, 19:24 UTC:
> >
> > "Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:20031203004859.GC893@jupp%gmx.de...
> > >
> > > If you now store them one after another going one to the right/left
> > > when assuming 0 and 5 are neighbors and current position is n
results
> > > in (n +/- 1) modulo 6. For the row the same works - with the only
> > > difference that the result of the operation must be multiplied by
the
> > > distance of the chunks representing a whole row (6 in this case).
> >
> > I don't fully understand what you mean by "not as sophisticated as it
> > seems" since it does exactly what you describe. (Look into the pos()
> > method)
> >
> > Now, did I or did you get something wrong? :-)
>
> Perhaps the meaning of 'sophisticated' :-> In German the word means
> 'ausgekluegelt, raffiniert'. And that does not apply.  Not that I am
> saying the implementation is trivial but if one knows how most
> programming languages store their data and is used to OOP it is a
> straightforward implementation. It is advanced but sophisticated it
> is not.
>
> IMHO 'that is sophisticated' is nothing very positive when said of
> code because in most cases it means 'I understand how that algorithm
> works but it took me a lot of time to get there'.

Ah!  Ok, now I see what you mean.  I completely misunderstood you.  Sorry
for the inconvenience. :-}

> for i in $(seq 1 9); do
> rm /bin/cat
> done

You more a dog guy, are you? :-)

Kind regards

    robert