On Sep 2, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On Sep 1, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Ruby Quiz wrote:
>
>> Gavin Kistner asked that I try timing the quiz solutions this  
>> week.  I did
>> indeed "try" that very thing and the results shocked me.  Let's  
>> take a look,
>> shall we:
>>
> [...]
>
>>     === Timing ./Gavin Kistner/word_chain.rb ===
>>     ./Gavin Kistner/word_chain.rb:65:in `Integer': invalid value  
>> for Integer:
>>     "duck" (ArgumentError)
>>             from ./Gavin Kistner/word_chain.rb:65
>>     === ./Gavin Kistner/word_chain.rb:  0.020758 seconds ===
>>
> [...]
>
>> My thanks to all who were able to understand my command-line argument
>> instructions this week.  ;)  Seriously, thanks to all submitters.   
>> Many great
>> solutions this week.
>>
>
> D'oh! Consider me well-and-duly admonished.

Sorry about that.  Word on the street is that James was cranky when  
he wrote this week's summary.
He's all better now though.  ;)

> Thanks as always for running the quiz!

Thank you for working the quiz and tolerating my mistakes.

James Edward Gray II