From: angus <angus@...>
Date: 2004-03-02T20:38:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Arabic # -> Roman # (Was: TDD Roman Numeral tutorial in Ruby)

> Hello Romans :-)
> 
> I have done a solution to work with romans for the pleac cookbook 
> project, see:
> 
> http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/numbers.html
> section "Working with Roman Numerals"
> 
> It does also the opposite conversation. I have looked at other solutions 
> in other languages before writing this, and was quite happy to came up 
> with this algorithm, because it is so simple. And ruby lets me write 
> things like "2004.to_roman".

Hi,

A trivial readability improvement:

Instead of

        for entry in @@romanlist
            sym, num = entry[0], entry[1]

I think it's better to write

        for sym, num in @@romanlist

Bye.