Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> Florian Gilcher wrote:
>> what are you trying to accomplish? Permutations maybe?
>> I frankly can't think of a problem that I would solve using them.
> 
> One application is exhaustive, brute-force unit testing.  For example,
> in my eRuby processor, it was necessary to test proper handling of
> eRuby directives surrounded by various amounts and kinds of whitespace
> (empty string, spaces, tabs, and line breaks):
> 
> http://github.com/sunaku/ember/blob/master/test/ember/template.rb

My jaw is gaping at the code I read..
Would this help at all?
http://trevoke.net/blog/2008/12/20/lexicographic-permutations-in-ruby/
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