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