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Well time is difficult to get but I just had to supply a Ruby Quiz
submission *again*.
Was so much fun. Tried to implemnt Tom's syntax driven by a data file
(tiny :(, see above)

# file: units.txt
#
# Units data file for Ruby Quiz #183
#
# -----------------------------------
#
1 in =3D 0.0254 m
1 l  =3D 0.001 m3
use SI prefixes for m g l m3
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# file: units.rb

module Conversion
  #
  # A primitive parser to create the conversion data structure, syntax
checks are
  # omitted to shorten the solution ;).
  #
  class LineParser
    SIUnits =3D { "Y" =3D> 10**24, "Z" =3D> 10**21, "E" =3D> 10**18, "P" =
=3D>
10**15, "T" =3D> 10**12,
      "G" =3D> 10**9, "M" =3D> 1_000_000, "k" =3D> 1000, "h" =3D> 100, "D" =
=3D> 10,
      "d" =3D> 0.1, "c" =3D> 0.01, "m" =3D> 0.001, "=B5" =3D> 0.000_001, "n=
" =3D>
10**-9, "p" =3D> 10**-12,
      "f" =3D> 10**-15, "a" =3D> 10**-18, "z"=3D> 10**-21, "y" =3D> 10**-24=
 }

    def parse_line line
      return if /^\s*#/ =3D=3D=3D line || line.strip.empty?
      line =3D line.strip.sub /#.*/, ""
      case line
      when /^use SI prefixes for /
=09add_si_units line.split[4..-1]
      else
=09add_conversion *line.split
      end
    end

    def traverse &blk
      @c.each do | unit, conversion_hash |
=09_traverse unit, conversion_hash, [ unit ], &blk
      end
    end
    private
    def add_conversion lhs_value, lhs_unit, equal_dummy, rhs_value, rhs_uni=
t
      @c[ lhs_unit ][ rhs_unit ] =3D Float( rhs_value ) / Float( lhs_value =
)
      @c[ rhs_unit ][ lhs_unit ] =3D Float( lhs_value ) / Float( rhs_value =
)
    end

    def add_si_units units
      units.each do |unit|
=09add_si_unit_for unit
      end
    end

    def add_si_unit_for unit
      SIUnits.each do | prefix, conversion |
=09@c[ prefix + unit ][ unit ] =3D conversion
=09@c[ unit ][ prefix + unit ] =3D 1 / conversion
      end
    end

    def initialize
      @c =3D Hash::new{ | h, k | h[ k ] =3D { } }
    end

    def _traverse src_unit, unit_conversions, traversed_units, f=3D1.0, &bl=
k
      unit_conversions.each do | new_unit, conversion |
=09next if traversed_units.include? new_unit
=09blk.call src_unit, new_unit, f * conversion
=09_traverse src_unit, @c[ new_unit ], traversed_units + [ new_unit ], f
* conversion, &blk
      end
    end
  end
  #
  #  Will be subclassed for each unit.
  #  Each such sublcass will than get all conversion methods defined dynami=
cally
  #  by means of exploring "units.txt"
  #
  class ProxyClass
    # syntactic sugar
    def to; self end
    alias_method :as, :to

    private
    def initialize value
      @value =3D value
    end
  end

  ProxyClasses =3D {} # maps units to their proxy classes
  def method_missing unit_name
    pc =3D ProxyClasses[ unit_name.to_s ] || super( unit_name )
    pc::new self
  end

  conversions =3D LineParser::new
  File::open "units.txt" do | f |
    f.each do | line |
      conversions.parse_line line
    end
  end
  conversions.traverse do | src_unit, tgt_unit, conversion |
    ( ProxyClasses[ src_unit ] ||=3D Class::new ProxyClass ).module_eval do
      define_method tgt_unit do (@value * conversion).to_s + tgt_unit end
    end
  end

end

class Integer
  include Conversion
end

class Float
  include Conversion
end
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# file: test-solution.rb

require 'units'
require 'test/unit'

class Test183_01 < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_001_simple
    assert_equal "25.4mm", 1.0.in.to.mm
    assert_equal "1.0mm", 0.001.m.to.mm
    assert_equal "0.0393700787401575in", 1.mm.in
    assert_equal "39370.0787401575in", 1.km.as.in
    assert_equal "0.001m3", 1.0.l.as.m3
  end
end

Thx for the quiz.
--=20
Ne baisse jamais la t=EAte, tu ne verrais plus les =E9toiles.

Robert Dober ;)

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